(2) If the making of calls under the agreement does constitute voter contact calling services, a person who is authorized under section 348.02 to enter into an agreement for voter contact calling services with respect to the person or group in question shall, before the first call is made, authorize the provision of voter contact calling services under the agreement and provide the calling service provider with their name, address and telephone number and a copy of a piece of identification authorized by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that contains their name.

3. Subject to this Agreement, when this Agreement comes into force, the previous agreement shall terminate and persons who were receiving benefits by virtue of that agreement shall receive those benefits by virtue of this Agreement.

348.05 (1) A calling service provider that enters into an agreement to make calls for or on behalf of a person or group shall, before the first call is made under the agreement during an election period, ask the person or group whether the making of calls under the agreement would constitute voter contact calling services.

The Government will ensure that certain federal programs, including programs provided by Veterans Affairs Canada and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada that currently provide income support benefits until age 65, are aligned with changes to the OAS program.

Competent authorities should not make the authorisation to provide investment services or activities subject to a general prohibition on the outsourcing of one or more critical or important functions or investment services or activities.

We're asking the finance committee to make the following recommendations: one, that the federal government should lead the way by publicly withdrawing its support for the clawback; two, that the federal government should seek agreement from the provinces and territories to renegotiate the national child benefit agreement with the intention of eliminating the clawback practice; three, in order to support negotiations to amend the national child benefit agreement, the government should offer to increase funding to ensure that the reinvestme ...[+++]nt programs are maintained; and finally, failing a mutually agreeable end to the clawback, the federal government should act unilaterally to amend the Income Tax Act to permit a consolidation of the Canada child tax benefit, which is the basic benefit, and the national child benefit supplement into one unified child poverty benefit.