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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry

First Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2006

Chair: The Honourable JOYCE FAIRBAIRN, P.C.

Thursday, June 15, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 (in camera)

Issue No. 5

First (final) meeting on:

Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Agricultural Marketing Programs Act

and

Ninth meeting on:

Present state and the future of agriculture and forestry in Canada

INCLUDING: THE SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill C-15)

APPEARING:

David L. Anderson, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary (for the Canadian Wheat Board) to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Miniter for the Canadian Wheat Board

WITNESSES:

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada:

Clair Gartley, Director General, Agriculture Transformation Programs Directorate;

Bruce Langevin, Assistant Director, Agriculture Marketing Programs Act, Financial Guarantee Programs Division.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Joyce Fairbairn, P.C., Chair

The Honourable Leonard J. Gustafson, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Callbeck, Christensen, *Hays (or Fraser), *LeBreton, P.C. (or Comeau), Mahovlich, Mercer, Mitchell, Oliver, Peterson, Segal, Tkachuk

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Pépin to be substituted (June 15, 2006).

The name of the Honourable Senator Campbell substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Mahovlich (June 19, 2006).

The name of the Honourable Senator Mahovlich substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Campbell (June 27, 2006).