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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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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)

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings
• Third Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (88K)

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WITNESSES:

Treasury Board of Canada:

Mike Joyce, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure and Management Strategies Sector;

Laura Danagher, Executive Director, Expenditure Operations & Estimates Directorate.

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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, 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).

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