Proceedings of the Special Committee of the Senate on
the Cape Breton Development Corporation

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Wednesday, October 22, 1997:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Murray, P.C., seconded by the Honourable Senator Forrestall:

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 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 report tabled with the Clerk of the Senate on April 25, 1997 by the Special Committee of the Senate on the Cape Breton Development Corporation during the Second Session of the Thirty-fifth Parliament be referred to the Committee;

That the Committee be authorized 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 15, 1997, and that the Committee retain all powers necessary to disseminate and publicize its final report until December 30, 1997

After debate, that question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate