Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Internal Economy,
Budgets and Administration
Issue 4 - Evidence
OTTAWA, Tuesday, December 9, 1997
The Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration met, in camera, this day at 9:08 a.m.
Senator Bill Rompkey (Chairman) in the Chair.
[English]
(The committee resumed in public session)
The Chairman: Honourable senators, we have before us various budgets for the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. I understand Senator Stollery will be standing in for Senator Stewart.
Senator Stollery: I am standing in for the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and you have our proposed budget before you. We have three items I believe; one of them is for legislation, $4,100, which is pretty well self-evident. In fact they are all pretty well self-evident.
We are involved in a special study, as members here will recall because the committee approved our budget for our Vancouver hearings on Canada's relations with the Asia-Pacific region. We are trying to complete that study and we have a request here for $21,200. Third, the committee will recall that we reported to the Senate last year on the implications of the changes in the European community to Canada. We think our report was quite good, and we are continuing that study, in particular, with regard to the transition to a common currency, so we have another application here for $31,200. That is it.
The Chairman: Any questions, comments?
Senator Nolin: All that money will be spent before April 1?
Senator Stollery: Yes. We are an extremely frugal committee, actually, so the chances are we will not spend as much as we have applied for.
The Chairman: Questions, comments? Is it agreed that the three committee budgets be approved?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried.
Senator Bonnell: Mr. Chairman, let me tell you that by the latter part of this week or by the early part of next week you will all get your eyes opened by one of the best reports ever put out by the Senate of Canada. We are calling it the Senate Report on Post-secondary Education in Canada for the Twenty-first Century. We now have a special adviser working on the report making sure that what we are saying fits in with the education society of the world -- the universities, the colleges and others. We need $7,500 to pay that special adviser and $3,000 for communications, for press conferences and so forth, so that all of Canada will know that the Senate has done another good thing here. The third item is $1,000 for lunches, et cetera. The total budget is $11,500.
The Chairman: Any questions, any comments, any suggestions?
Senator DeWare: I will so move.
The Chairman: So moved. That is all the budgets.
I suggest that the committee now proceed in camera. Is it agreed?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The committee continued in camera.