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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

Second Session Thirty-sixth Parliament, 1999-2000

Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.

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Tuesday, May 16, 2000

Issue No. 12

Fourth meeting on: Canada's Emergency and Disaster Preparedness

• Minutes of Proceedings
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (66K)

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WITNESSES:

From Treasury Board Secretariat:

Andrew M. Lieff, Senior Director, Expenditure Operations and Estimates Division, Planning, Performance and Reporting Sector;

Gérald Cossette, Program Director, Foreign and Defence Programs.

From Black & White Communications Inc. and from The Canadian National Committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (CNC-IDNDR):

Kathryn White, President, Black & White Communications Inc. and Board Member of the CNC-IDNDR.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Chairman

The Honourable Anne C. Cools, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Bolduc, * Boudreau, P.C. (or Hays), Doody, Ferretti Barth, Finestone, P.C., Finnerty, * Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Mahovlich, Moore, Stratton

* Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

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