Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Banking, Trade and Commerce

Issue 2 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Wednesday, March 4, 2009:

The Honourable Senator Meighen moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stratton:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce be authorized to examine and report upon the present state of the domestic and international financial system; and

That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the committee on the subject since the beginning of the First session of the Thirty-ninth Parliament be referred to the committee; and

That the committee submit its final report no later than December 31, 2010, and that the committee retain until March 31, 2011 all powers necessary to publicize its findings.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate