The Standing Senate Committee on National Finance has the honour to table its

FIRST REPORT

Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of estimates and such legislation as was referred to it, reports pursuant to Rule 104 of the rules of the Senate, that the expenses incurred by the Committee during the First Session of the Thirty-Sixth Parliament are as follows:

1.   With respect to its consideration of estimates and legislation:

Your Committee held 44 meetings, during which it heard 127 witnesses. It reviewed two sets of Main Estimates (1998-99 and 1999-2000), five sets of Supplementary Estimates: Supplementary Estimates (B), 1998-99, Supplementary Estimates (B), 1997-98; Supplementary Estimates (C), 1998-99; Supplementary Estimates (A), 1997-98; Supplementary Estimates (A), 1998-99. The Committee had examined five Bills (C-36), C-41, C-43, C-65, C-71. The Committee had also examined the issues of Retention and Compensation in the Public Service. It issued 16 reports.

2.   With respect to a special study of the Subcommittee on Canada’s Emergency and Disaster Preparedness:

Respectfully submitted,

Lowell Murray
Chairman