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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE

October 29, 2002

The Standing Senate Committee on National Finance

has the honour to table its

FIRST REPORT


Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of the estimates and legislation referred to it, reports pursuant to Rule 104 of the Rules of the Senate, that the expenses incurred by the Committee during the First Session of the Thirty-Seventh Parliament are as follows:

 

1.      With respect to its consideration of estimates and legislation:

Professional Services  $ 2,093
Witness expenses $ 2,742

TOTAL $ 4,835

                          

2.      With respect to its special study on Equalization

Witness expenses $ 4,851

TOTAL $ 4,851

 

3.      With respect to its special study on the Goose Bay Labrador Airfield

Professional Services $ 9,133
Witness expenses   $ 2,962

TOTAL $ 12,095

            Your Committee held 59 meetings, during which it heard 148 witnesses and presented 20 reports during the session.  It reviewed the Main Estimates for 2001-2002 and began examination of the Main Estimates for 2002-2003.  It reviewed three sets of Supplementary Estimates covering the years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. The Committee examined five bills including Bill S-23, An Act to amend the Customs Act and to make related amendments to other Acts, which was introduced in the Senate.  The Committee carried out three special studies, namely, the effectiveness of the present equalization policy, the role of the government in the financing of deferred maintenance costs in Canada’s post-secondary institutions and the administrative contract at the Goose Bay, Labrador Airfield.

Respectfully submitted,

Lowell Murray
Chairman


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