Proceedings of the Standing
Senate Committee on
National Finance
First Session, Thirty-eighth Parliament, 2004-05
Chair: The Honourable DONALD H. OLIVER
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Issue No. 13
Third and final 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)
First meeting on:
The examination of the Supplementary Estimates (B), laid before Parliament for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005
INCLUDING:
THE THIRD REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Bill C-24)
WITNESSES:
Treasury Board of Canada:
Mike Joyce, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure and Management Strategies Sector;
Laura Danagher, Executive Director, Expenditure Operations & Estimates Directorate.
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, Downe, Ferretti Barth, Harb, *Kinsella, (or Stratton), Murray, P.C., Ringuette, Stollery, Stratton
*Ex Officio Members
(Quorum 4)
Change in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The name of the Honourable Senator Biron is substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Massicotte (March 8, 2005).