Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance
First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001
Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.
Tuesday, November 6, 2001
Issue No. 27
Seventh 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
APPEARING:
Neil LeBlanc, Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia
WITNESS:
From the Government of Nova Scotia:Elizabeth A. Cody, Executive Director, Fiscal and Economic Policy, Nova Scotia Finance Department.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., ChairmanThe Honourable Isobel Finnerty, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Banks, Bolduc, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cools, Doody, Ferretti Barth, Furey, Kinsella, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Mahovlich, Stratton, 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 Stratton substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Comeau (November 6, 2001)
The name of the Honourable Senator Comeau substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Stratton (November 5, 2001)