Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and
Communications
Issue 1 - First Report of the Committee
Wednesday, November 17, 1999
The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications has the honour to table its
FIRST REPORT
Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of such legislation and other matters as were referred to it, reports, pursuant to Rule 104 of the Rules, that the expenses incurred by the Committee during the First Session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament are as follows:
1. With respect to its examination of legislation:
| Professional services
|
$35,072.77
|
| Transportation & Communications
|
$18.50
|
| Witness expenses
|
$7,088.79
|
| Total
|
$42,180.06
|
2. With respect to its special study on Canada's international competitive position in communications:
| Professional services
|
$180,835.49
|
| Transportation & Communications
|
$59,000.47
|
| Witness expenses
|
$1,614.86
|
| Miscellaneous
|
$1,148.81
|
| Total
|
$242,599.63
|
3. With respect to its special study on transportation safety:
| Professional services
|
$43,362.91
|
| Transportation & Communications
|
$67,494.21
|
| Witness expenses
|
$2,819.08
|
| Miscellaneous
|
$
|
| Total
|
$113,676.20
|
During the session under consideration, your committee considered nine (9) Orders of Reference, held thirty-six (36) meetings and heard from one hundred ninety (190) witnesses and submitted twelve (12) reports in relation to its work.
Your committee examined eight bills, made eleven (11) amendments and observations to three (3) of these Bills:
Bill S-4, An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act (maritime liability).
Bill C-17, An Act to amend the Telecommunications Act and the Teleglobe Canada Reorganization and Divestiture Act.
Bill S-2, An Act to amend the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act.
Bill C-9, An Act for making the system of Canadian Ports competitive, efficient and commercially oriented, providing for the establishing of port authorities, and the divesting of certain harbours and ports, for the commercialization of the St. Lawrence Seaway and ferry services and other matters related to maritime trade and transport and amending the Pilotage Act and amending and repealing other Acts as a consequence.
Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Bill S-23, An Act to amend the Carriage by Air Act to give effect to a Protocol to amend the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air and to give effect to the Convention, Supplementary to the Warsaw Convention, for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air Performed by a Person Other than the Contracting Carrier.
Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Railway Safety Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act.
Bill C-55, An Act respecting Advertising services supplied by foreign periodical publishers.
The Subcommittee on Communications held nineteen (19) meetings and heard more than twenty-five (25) hours of testimony given by forty-three (43) witnesses in relation to the special study on Canada's international competitive position in communications. The Committee presented its Final Report entitled Wired to Win! -- Canada's Positioning Within the World's Technological Revolution to the Senate on June 7, 1999.
Your subcommittee travelled on a fact-finding mission to Brussels, Paris and to London from November 14 to 22, 1998.
The Subcommittee on Transport Safety and Security held eight (8) meetings and heard ten (10) hours of testimony given by eleven (11) witnesses. The committee presented a report to the Senate on June 10, 1998.
Respectfully submitted,
LISE BACON
Chair