Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18
Chair: The Honourable PERCY MOCKLER
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Issue No. 60
Consideration of a draft agenda (future business)
Seventh and eighth meetings:
Study on such issues as may arise from time to time relating to federal estimates generally, including the public accounts, reports of the Auditor General and government finance
First, second and third meetings:
Supplementary Estimates (C) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018
First meeting:
Interim Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019
- Order of Reference
- Minutes of Proceedings - February 13, 2018
- Minutes of Proceedings - February 27, 2018
- Minutes of Proceedings - February 28, 2018 (afternoon meeting)
- Minutes of Proceedings - February 28, 2018 (evening meeting)
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - February 13, 2018
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - February 27, 2018
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - February 28, 2018 (afternoon meeting)
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - February 28, 2018 (evening meeting)
WITNESSES
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer:
Jean-Denis Fréchette, Parliamentary Budget Officer;
Mostafa Askari, Deputy Parliamentary Budget Officer;
Trevor Shaw, Economic Advisor-Analyst;
Tim Scholz, Economic Advisor-Analyst.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada:
Brian Pagan, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector;
Marcia Santiago, Executive Director, Expenditure Management Sector;
Grace Chenette, Executive Director, Financial Management Directorate.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 (afternoon meeting)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police:
Daniel Dubeau, Acting Commissioner;
Dennis Watters, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer.
Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces:
Julie Charron, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance) and Deputy Chief Financial Officer;
Patrick Finn, Assistant Deputy Minister (Materiel).
Health Canada:
Randy Larkin, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, Chief Financial Officer Branch;
Edward De Sousa, Director General, Resource Management Directorate;
Todd Cain, Director General, Organization and Launch Directorate.
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer:
Jason Jacques, Senior Director, Costing and Budgetary Analysis;
Jason Stanton, Financial Analyst.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 (evening meeting)
Global Affairs Canada:
Arun Thangaraj, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer;
Shirley Carruthers, Director General, Financial Resource Planning and Management Bureau.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Percy Mockler, Chair
The Honourable Mobina S.B. Jaffer, Deputy Chair
The Honourable André Pratte, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Andreychuk, Black (Alberta), Campbell, Cools, Day, *Day (or Mercer), Eaton, Forest, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), (or Mitchell), Marshall, Neufeld, *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 Neufeld replaced the Honourable Senator Ngo (February 28, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Ngo replaced the Honourable Senator Neufeld (February 27, 2018).