Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Banking, Trade and Commerce
Issue 15 - Fifteenth and Sixteenth Reports of the Committee
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
The Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce has the honour to table its
FIFTEENTH REPORT
Your committee, which was authorized by the Senate on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 to examine and report on issues dealing with productivity, now respectfully tables its report entitled Falling Behind: Answering the wake-up call — What can be done to improve Canada's Productivity Performance?
Respectfully submitted,
JERAHMIEL S. GRAFSTEIN
Chair
Thursday, June 23, 2005
The Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce has the honour to present its
SIXTEENTH REPORT
Your committee, to which was referred Bill S-19, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal interest rate), has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Tuesday, December 7, 2004, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendment:
Page 1, clause 1:
(a) Replace line 4 with the following:
"1. (1) The definitions "criminal rate'' and''; and
(b) Add after line 32 the following:
"(2) Section 347 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (8):
(9) This section does not apply to any agreement or arrangement under which the credit advanced exceeds one hundred thousand dollars.''.
Respectfully submitted,
JERAHMIEL S. GRAFSTEIN
Chair