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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

Second Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2007

Chair: The Honourable TOMMY BANKS

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Issue No. 2

Second and third meetings on:

The subject matter of Bill S-208, An Act to require the Minister of the Environment to establish, in co- operation with the provinces, an agency with the power to identify and protect Canada's watersheds that will constitute sources of drinking water in the future

and

Second meeting on:

Emerging issues related to its mandate

WITNESSES:

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Department of Justice Canada:

Henry Schultz, Senior General Counsel, Legal Services (Environment Canada);

Warren J. Newman, General Counsel, Constitutional and Administrative Law Section;

Elin O'Shea, Counsel, Constitutional and Administrative Law Section.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Office of the Auditor General of Canada:

Ronald Thompson, FCA, Interim Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development;

Andrew Ferguson, Principal;

Richard Arseneault, Principal.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Environment Canada:

Michael Martin, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch;

John H. Carey, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology Branch.

Natural Resources Canada:

Mark Corey, Assistant Deputy Minister, Earth Sciences Sector;

David Boerner, Director General, Central and Northern Canada Branch, Geological Survey of Canada.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Tommy Banks, Chair

The Honourable Pierre Claude Nolin, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Adams, Brown, Campbell, Cochrane, *Hervieux-Payette, P.C. (or Tardif), Kenny, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Comeau), Milne, Mitchell, Sibbeston, Spivak, Trenholme Counsell

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

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