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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Banking, Trade and Commerce

First Session Thirty-sixth Parliament, 1997-98

Chairman: The Honourable MICHAEL KIRBY

Thursday, November 5, 1998 (a.m.)
Thursday, November 5, 1998 (p.m.)

Issue No. 39

Fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth meetings on:

Examination of the present state of the financial system in Canada (Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector)

WITNESSES:

Morning sitting

From the Business Development Bank of Canada:

Mr. Michel Vennat, Chairman of the Board; and

Mr. François Beaudoin, President and Chief Executive Officer.

From ING Bank of Canada:

Mr. Arkadi Kuhlmann, President and Chief Executive Officer.

From the Export Development Corporation:

Mr. Ian Gillespie, President and Chief Executive Officer.

From the Canadian Federation of Independent Business:

Ms Catherine S. Swift, President and Chief Executive Officer;

Mr. Brien G. Gray, Senior Vice-President, Policy and Provincial Affairs; and

Mr. Garth White, Vice-President, National Affairs.

Afternoon sitting

From the National Anti-Poverty Organization:

Ms Laurie Rektor, Executive Director.

From the National Council of Women of Canada:

Ms Elizabeth Hutchinson, President;

Ms Helen Saravanamuttoo, Vice-President; and

Ms Shirley McBride, Convenor of Economics.

From the Council of Canadians:

Mr. Peter Bleyer, Executive Director; and

Mr. Jamie Dunn.

From the Power Corporation of Canada:

Mr. Jim Burns, President, Power Corporation of Canada and Chairman, Great West Life; and

Mr. Ted Johnson, Counsel.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Michael Kirby, Chairman

The Honourable Consiglio Di Nino, Deputy Chairman

and

The Honourable Senators:

Angus, Austin, P.C., Callbeck, * Graham, P.C. (or Carstairs), Hervieux-Payette, P.C., Kelleher, P.C., Kenny, Kolber, Kroft, * Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella (acting)), Meighen, Oliver

* Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Di Nino substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Tkachuk (November 4, 1998).

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