Consulting with Canadians

Good planning starts with listening. Finance Canada consults with Canadians on issues large and small, enabling public input on policy options. The Department tries to ensure that as many people as possible – whether they represent businesses, groups with special interests or individual Canadians – get the opportunity to have their say.

- Active Consultations - Previous Major Consultations
- Previous Technical Consultations - Related Third Party Consultations -

Active Consultations

Online Consultations on the  Advantage Canada Plan

Previous Major Consultations

Canada Pension Plan Financing

Consultations on the Commission for Africa

Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions

Enhancing Canada's Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime.

Large Bank Mergers

Online Consultations on Restoring Fiscal Balance in Canada

Online Pre-Budget Consultations for Budget 2006 and Beyond

Regulatory Framework for Federally Regulated Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Sustainable Development Strategy

Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector

Tax and Other Issues Related to Publicly Listed Flow-Through Entities (Income Trusts and Limited Partnerships)

The 2006 Review of Financial Sector Legislation

Previous Technical Consultations

Accelerated Tariff Elimination (August 1999)

Accelerated Tariff Elimination (Canada Gazette Notice, September 15, 2001)

Air Travellers Security Charge Review

Amendments to the Harmonized System - World Trade Organization (Canada Gazette Notice, December 2, 2000)

Class 43.1 (Income Tax Regulations)

Consultation Paper for the World Trade Organization  Negotiations on Financial Services (June 2000)

Consultation Paper on WTO Subsidies and Trade Remedies Negotiations

Cooperative Bank Consultation - Key Principles Underlying a Possible Legislative Model

Demutualization Regime for Canadian Life Insurance Companies (August 1998)

Disability Tax Credit Consultation

Discussion Paper on "Emergency Safeguard Mechanism" - World Trade Organization Negotiation on Trade in Services (July 24, 2001)

Draft Income Tax Amendments Implementing Key Elements of Government's Five-Year Tax Reduction Plan (News Release 2000-101,  December 21, 2000)

Draft Legislative Proposals and Explanatory Notes Relating to Budget 2000 and Other Sales Tax Measures (News Release 2000-078, October 4, 2000)

Employment Insurance Premium Rate-Setting Mechanism

Finance Canada Seeks Views On The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) Textile Tariff Reference (August 2001)

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering Consultations - Review of the FATF 40  Recommendations

Follow-Up to Termination of the Machinery Program (July 2000)

Foreign Bank Entry Policy (September 1997)

Foreign Bank Tax Proposals (News Release 2000-059, August 8, 2000)

• Prescribed Deposit Regulations and Sales and Trades Regulations for Authorized Foreign Banks and Banks without Deposit Insurance (December 1999)

Government Announces Comprehensive Strategy to Discourage Smoking (News Release 2001-039, April 5, 2001)

Income Tax Measures in the 2000 Budget (News Release 2000-039, May 9, 2000)

Harmonization of MFN tariffs with the United States and Mexico and liberalization of the rules of origin under NAFTA

Invitation to submit views on Requests for Accelerated Elimination of Tariffs Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (Canada Gazette Notice, September 15, 2001)

Invitation to submit views on a proposed increase in certain Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) tariffs.

Legislation to Create New Policy Framework for Financial Services Sector (News Release 2001-014, February 7, 2001)

Legislation to Amend the Excise Tax Act (News Release 2001-017, February 20, 2001)

Money-Laundering Regulation (News Release 2001-016, February 16, 2001)

Notice Seeking Comments on Possible Trade Retaliation Against the United States in Response to that Country’s Failure to Repeal the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (commonly referred to as the Byrd Amendment) (November 2004)

Payments System Review (July 1998)

Pilot Bond Buyback Program - Consultations With Market Participants (June 1998)

Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Regulations - Consultation Paper (December 1999)

Proposed Amendments to the NAFTA Rules of Origin

Proposal to Amend de minimis Provisions and to Implement Transhipment and Minor Processing Provisions under the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (Canada Gazette Notice, November 28, 2001)

Proposals for Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) Rules of Origin Changes

Proposals for Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Rules of Origin Changes

Proposed Amendments to GST/HST Regulations Relating to Provincial Gaming Authorities (News Release 2000-052, July 5, 2000)

Technical Committee on Business Income Tax: report and working papers (April 1998)

Related Third Party Consultations

Parliamentary Consultations

Budget 2000 New Era... New Plan (Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, December 1999)

Canada: People, Places and Priorities (Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, November 2002)

Facing the Future: Challenges and Choices for a New Era (Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, December 1998)

For the Benefit of our Children: Improving Tax Fairness (Nineteenth Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, Sub-Committee on Tax Equity for Canadian Families with Dependent Children, June 1999)

Keeping the Balance: Security and Opportunity for Canadians (Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, December 1997)

Productivity with a Purpose: Improving the Standard of Living of Canadians (Twentieth Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, June 1999)

Securing our Future (Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, November 2001)

The Future Starts Now: A study of the Financial Services Sector in Canada - Final Report (Report of the Standing Committee on Finance,  March 1999)

Task Forces and Working Groups

Technical Committee on Business Taxation Report (April 6, 1998)

Wise Persons Committee