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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

First Session, Thirty-eighth Parliament, 2004-05

Chair: The Honourable DONALD H. OLIVER

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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Issue No. 11

First meeting on:

Bill C-24, An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act
and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (fiscal equalization
payments to the provinces and funding to the territories)

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (69K)

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APPEARING:

The Honourable John McKay, P.C., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance

WITNESSES:

Department of Finance Canada:

François Delorme, Director, Federal-Provincial Relations Division;

Sean Keenan, Chief, Equalization and Policy Development, Federal-Provincial Relations Division;

Clare Scullion, Senior General Counsel, Law Branch.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Donald H. Oliver, Chair

The Honourable Joseph A. Day, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

*Austin, P.C., (or Rompkey, P.C.), Biron, Comeau, Cools, Day, Downe, Ferretti Barth, Harb, *Kinsella, (or Stratton), Murray, P.C., Ringuette, Stollery, Stratton

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

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