Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16

Chair: The Honourable LARRY SMITH

Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Issue No. 6

Ninth, tenth and eleventh meetings:

Main Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017

APPEARING

The Honourable Scott Brison, P.C., M.P., President of the Treasury Board

WITNESSES

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 (Morning Meeting)

Statistics Canada:

Stéphane Dufour, Assistant Chief Statistician and CFO, Corporate Services;

Connie Graziadei, Assistant Chief Statistician, Census, Operations and Communications.

Canadian High Arctic Research Station (Polar Knowledge Canada):

David J. Scott, President;

Julie Brunet, Director, Human Resources and Corporate Services.

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency:

Juliet Woodfield, Vice President, Corporate Services and CFO;

Heather Smith, Vice President, Operations.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 (Afternoon Meeting)

Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada:

Yaprak Baltacioglu, Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada;

Brian Pagan, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector;

Renée LaFontaine, Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Services.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Natural Resources Canada:

Kami Ramcharan, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Management and Services Sector.

Environment and Climate Change Canada:

Carol Najm, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, Finance Branch;

Dan McDougall, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch.

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited:

Richard Sexton, Chief Transition Officer (Acting), Vice President, Decommissioning and Waste Management Oversight;

Shannon Quinn, Vice President, Science, Technology and Commercial Oversight.

MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Larry Smith, Chair

The Honourable Larry W. Campbell, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Bellemare, *Carignan, P.C. (or Martin), Eaton, *Harder, P.C., Manning, Marshall, Mitchell, Mockler, Tkachuk

*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 Tkachuk replaced the Honourable Senator Neufeld (April 20, 2016).

The Honourable Senator Neufeld replaced the Honourable Senator Ogilvie (April 20, 2016).

The Honourable Senator Ogilvie replaced the Honourable Senator Neufeld (April 19, 2016).