Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.

Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Issue No. 7

First meeting on: Bill S-23, An Act to amend the Customs Act and to make related amendments to other Acts

APPEARING:

The Honourable Martin Cauchon, Minister of National Revenue

WITNESS:

From Revenue Canada:

Mr. Denis Lefebvre, Deputy Commissioner, Customs Directorate.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Chairman

The Honourable Isobel Finnerty, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Angus, Banks, Bolduc, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cools, Doody, Ferretti Barth, Kinsella, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Mahovlich, Tunney.

* 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 Banks substituted for that of the Honourable Senator De Bané, P.C. (April 25, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Angus substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Stratton (May 4, 2001).

CORRIGENDUM

Issue No. 5 of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance contains the following errors on the cover page:

1. The date of the issue appearing in the left column should read:

Wednesday, March 28, 2001

2. The order of reference appearing in the left column should read:

The Expenditures set out in the Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2002

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