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

Issue 1 - Orders of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, October 23, 2002:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Setlakwe, seconded by the Honourable Senator LaPierre, for the second reading of Bill S-2, An Act to implement an agreement, conventions and protocols concluded between Canada and Kuwait, Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates, Moldova, Norway, Belgium and Italy for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion and to amend the enacted text of three tax treaties.

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

The Bill was then read the second time.

The Honourable Senator Setlakwe moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fraser, that the Bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Banking Trade and Commerce.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, October 23, 2002:

The Honourable Senator Kolber moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Maheu:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce be authorized to examine and report upon the present state of the domestic and international financial system;

That the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject during the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament and any other relevant Parliamentary papers and evidence on the said subject be referred to the Committee;

That the Committee be empowered to permit coverage by electronic media of its public proceedings with the least possible disruption of its hearings;

That, notwithstanding usual practices, the Committee be permitted to deposit an interim report on the said subject with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not sitting, and that the said report shall thereupon be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber; and

That the Committee submit its final report no later than June 19, 2003.

After debate,

With leave of the Senate and pursuant to Rule 30, the motion was modified to read as follows:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce be authorized to examine and report upon the present state of the domestic and international financial system;

That the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject during the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament and any other relevant Parliamentary papers and evidence on the said subject be referred to the Committee;

That the Committee be empowered to permit coverage by electronic media of its public proceedings with the least possible disruption of its hearings; and

That the Committee submit its final report no later than June 19, 2003.

The question being put on the motion, as modified, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate