Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on

National Finance

First Session Thirty-sixth Parliament, 1997-98-99

Chairman: The Honourable TERRANCE R. STRATTON

Wednesday, March 24, 1999

Issue No. 32

First meeting on: The examination of the Main Estimates 1999-2000

INCLUDING: THE FOURTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (MAIN ESTIMATES 1999-2000 (INTERIM REPORT)

WITNESS:

From the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat:

Rick Neville, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Analysis and Operations Sector.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Terrance R. Stratton, Chairman

The Honourable Anne C. Cools, Deputy Chairman

and

The Honourable Senators:

Cook, Ferretti Barth, Fraser, *Graham, P.C. (or Carstairs), Grimard, Johnstone, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella (acting)), Mahovlich, Moore, Nolin, St. Germain, P.C., Tkachuk.

* 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 Johnstone was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator De Bané (March 24, 1999).