Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015

Chair: The Honourable JOSEPH A. DAY

Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Issue No. 1

Organization meeting

and

Consideration of a draft agenda (future business)

and

First, second, third and fourth meetings:

Supplementary Estimates (B) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016

INCLUDING:
THE FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Supplementary Estimates (B) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016)

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings - December 8, 2015
• Minutes of Proceedings - December 9, 2015 (12:17 p.m.)
• Minutes of Proceedings - December 9, 2015 (2:30 p.m.)
• Minutes of Proceedings - December 10, 2015
• First Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - December 8, 2015
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - December 9, 2015 (12:17 p.m.)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - December 9, 2015 (2:30 p.m.)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - December 10, 2015

WITNESSES:

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat:

Brian Pagan, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector;

Renée LaFontaine, Assistant Secretary, Corporate Services Sector.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Parliamentary Protective Service:

Chief Superintendent Michael Duheme, Director;

Sloane Mask, Deputy Chief Financial Officer;

Jean Forgues, Administrative & Personnel Officer.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada:

Tony Matson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Chief Financial Officer;

Sidney Frank, Director General, Syria Refugee Project;

Mike MacDonald, Director General, Operational Management and Coordination;

Daniel Mills, Director General, Financial Management.

As an individual:

Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Joseph A. Day, Chair

The Honourable Larry W. Smith, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Ataullahjan, Bellemare, *Carignan, P.C. (or Martin), Chaput, Day, Gerstein, Hervieux-Payette, P.C., Mockler, Rivard, Wallace

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

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

The Honourable Senator Ataullahjan replaced the Honourable Senator Eaton (December 10, 2015).