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

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Tuesday, November 23, 1999:

The Honourable Senator Kolber moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Ferretti Barth:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce be authorized to examine and report upon the present state of the domestic and international financial system;

That the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject during the First Session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament and any other relevant Parliamentary papers and evidence on the said subject be referred to the Committee;

That the Committee be empowered to permit coverage by electronic media of its public proceedings with the least possible disruption of its hearings;

That, notwithstanding usual practices, the Committee be permitted to deposit an interim report on the said subject with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not sitting, and that the said report shall thereupon be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber; and

That the Committee submit its final report no later than December 31, 2000.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Paul Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate