The Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration 

has the honour to present its

SEVENTH REPORT

     Your Committee wishes to inform the Senate that on May 7^th, 2009 your Committee adopted revised guidelines for International Travel. 

     Therefore your Committee requests that the Senate Administrative Rules be amended as follows: 

 (a) in chapter 4:03, 

(i) by replacing subsection 5(1) with the following: 

  “5. (1) One point shall be deducted from a Senator’s travel points for each four-day period, or portion thereof, of a return national trip or of a return trip to Washington, D.C., or New York City, undertaken under section 13.1.”, and 

(ii) by replacing subsection 13.1(1) with the following: 

  “13.1 (1)  A Senator is entitled to make, for the purpose of carrying out the Senator’s parliamentary functions, a total of four return trips per fiscal year from anywhere in Canada to Washington, D.C., or, in respect of United Nations-related matters, New York City.”; and 

(b) in chapter 6:01, on page 2, in the text before the breakdown of the daily allowance for meal and incidental expenses, by replacing the words “in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.,” with the following:   

“in Washington, D.C. or in New York City,”.

Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE J. FUREY, Q.C./C.R.
Chair