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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18

Chair: The Honourable DIANE F. GRIFFIN

Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Issue No. 50

Consideration of a draft agenda (future business)

and

First and second meetings:
Subject matter of those elements contained in Part 5, insofar as that Part relates to farming of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures

and

Fourth meeting:
Study on how the value-added food sector can be more competitive in global markets

WITNESSES

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Environment and Climate Change Canada:

John Moffet, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Environmental Protection Branch;

Philippe Giguère, Manager, Legislative Policy.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada:

Tom Rosser, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch.

Department of Finance Canada:

Gervais Coulombe, Director, Sales Tax Division, Tax Policy Branch;

Pierre Mercille, Director General (Legislation), Sales Tax Division, Tax Policy Branch;

David Turner, Tax Policy Analyst, Sales Tax Division, Tax Policy Branch.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Canadian Federation of Agriculture:

Ron Bonnett, President;

Myles Frosst, Consultant.

Food and Beverage Canada:

Teresa Schoonings, Member of Board of Directors.

Canadian Food Exporters Association:

Peter Mulherin, Chairperson;

Susan Powell, President and CEO.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Diane F. Griffin, Chair

The Honourable Ghislain Maltais, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Ataullahjan, Black (Ontario), Dagenais, *Day (or Mercer), Deacon, Doyle, Gagné, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), (or Mitchell), Mercer, Oh, Petitclerc, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Deacon replaced the Honourable Senator Woo (May 2, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Woo replaced the Honourable Senator Marwah (April 26, 2018).

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