Proceedings of the Special Committee of the Senate on
the Cape Breton Development Corporation (1997)

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journal of the Senate, February 11, 1997:

With leave of the Senate, The Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stewart:

That the Special Committee of the Senate on the Cape Breton Development Corporation be revived to examine and report upon the Annual Report, Corporate Plan and progress reports of the Cape Breton Development Corporation and related matters;

That notwithstanding Rule 85(1)(b), the Honourable Senators Anderson, Buchanan, De Bané, Ghitter, Gigantès, Landry, MacDonald (Halifax), Macdonald (Cape Breton), Moore, Murray, Rompkey and Stanbury act as members of the Special Committee, and that three members constitute a quorum;

That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to examine witnesses, to report from time to time and to print such papers and evidence from day to day as may be ordered by the Committee;

That the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject and the work accomplished by the Special Committee of the Senate on the Cape Breton Development Corporation during this session of the Thirty-fifth Parliament be referred to the Committee; and

That the Committee submit its final report no later than March 11, 1997, and that the Committee retain all powers necessary to disseminate and publicize its final report until March 15, 1997.

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate