Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16

Chair: The Honourable LARRY SMITH

Tuesday, June 14, 2016 (in camera)
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Issue No. 12

Fifth meeting:

Supplementary Estimates (A) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017

and

Eighth and ninth meetings:

The subject matter of all of Bill C-15, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2016 and other measures

INCLUDING:
THE SIXTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Supplementary Estimates (A), 2016-17)

WITNESSES

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology:

The Honourable Senator Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie, Chair;

The Honourable Senator Art Eggleton, P.C., Deputy Chair.

Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce:

The Honourable Senator David Tkachuk, Chair;

The Honourable Senator Joseph A. Day, Deputy Chair.

Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence:

The Honourable Senator Daniel Lang, Chair;

The Honourable Senator Joseph A. Day, former Deputy Chair.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

As an individual:

Jack Mintz, President's Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary.

Statistics Canada:

James Tebrake, Director General, Macroeconomic Accounts Branch;

Tom Dufour, Director, Public Sector Statistics.

Department of Finance Canada:

Tom McGirr, Chief, Equalization and TFF Policy, Federal-Provincial Relations Division, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch;

Duane Hayes, Chief, Program Payments and Estimates Section, Federal-Provincial Relations Division, Federal- Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Larry Smith, Chair

The Honourable Larry W. Campbell, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Ataullahjan, Beyak, *Carignan, P.C. (or Martin), Cools, Eaton, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), Marshall, Mockler, Pratte

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Beyak replaced the Honourable Senator Neufeld (June 16, 2016).

The Honourable Senator Mitchell was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (June 14, 2016).