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

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chairman: The Honourable E. LEO KOLBER

Wednesday, October 24, 2001

Issue No. 20

First and last meeting on: Bill S-31, An Act to implement agreements, conventions and protocols concluded between Canada and Slovenia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Senegal, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Germany for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income

INCLUDING: THE TENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill S-31)

APPEARING:

John McCallum, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance

WITNESSES:

From the Department of Finance:

Brian Ernewein, Director, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch;

David Senecal, Tax Policy Officer, Tax Treaties Section, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable E. Leo Kolber, Chairman

The Honourable David Tkachuk, Deputy Chairman

and

The Honourable Senators:

Angus*Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Fitzpatrick, Furey, Hervieux-Payette, P.C., Kelleher, P.C., Kroft, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Meighen, Oliver, Poulin, Setlakwe.

* 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 Furey substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Callbeck (October 24, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Callbeck substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Furey (October 24, 2001).