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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, October 24, 2001

Issue No. 24

Fourth meeting on: The effectiveness and possible improvements to the present equalization policy in ensuring that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public service at reasonably comparable levels of taxation

• Minutes of Proceedings
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (54K)

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WITNESSES:

As an individual:

Ken Boessenkool.

From the Government of Prince Edward Island:

Patricia Mella, Provincial Treasurer of Prince Edward Island;

John Palmer, Director of Economics, Statistics and Federal Fiscal Relations.

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MEMBRES OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Chairman

The Honourable Isobel Finnerty, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Banks, Bolduc, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Christensen, Cools, Day, De Bané, P.C., Kinsella, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Mahovlich, Moore, Stratton.

* Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

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

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