Proceedings of the Standing
Senate Committee on
National Finance
First Session, Thirty-eighth Parliament, 2004-05
Chair: The Honourable DONALD H. OLIVER
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)
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.
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)