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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Issue No. 3

First meeting on: Expenditures set out in the Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2002

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (63K)

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WITNESSES:

From the Treasury Board of Canada:

Keith Coulter, Assistant Secretary, Planning, Performance and Reporting Sector;

Andrew M. Lieff, Director, Expenditure Operations and Estimates Division;

J. Kevin Lindsey, Director, Expenditure Operations, Expenditure Operations and Estimates Division, Planning, Performance and Reporting Sector.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Chairman

The Honourable Isobel Finnerty, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Bolduc, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cools, Doody, Ferretti Barth, Hervieux-Payette, P.C., Kinsella, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Mahovlich, Stratton, Tunney, Wiebe

* 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 Tunney substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Kirby (March 13, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Wiebe substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Banks (March 14, 2001).

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