Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Banking, Trade and Commerce

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, March 21, 1996:

The Honourable Senator Graham, on behalf of Senator Kirby, moved:

THAT, the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce be authorized to examine and report upon the present state of the financial system in Canada;

THAT the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject during the First Session of the Thirty-Fifth Parliament and any other relevant Parliamentary papers and evidence on the said subject be referred to the Committee;

THAT the Committee be empowered to permit coverage by electronic media of its public proceedings with the least possible disruption of its hearings; and

THAT the Committee submit its final report no later than December 12, 1996.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Paul Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate