Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance
First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001
Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Issue No. 25
Fifth meeting on: The effectiveness and possible improvements to the present equalization policy in ensuring that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public service at reasonably comparable levels of taxationWITNESSES:
From Queen's University:Dan Usher.
From the Canadian Union of Public Employees:
Paul Moist, General Vice-President;
Wayne Lucas, General Vice-President;
Heather Farrow, Senior Research Officer;
Jane Stinson, Research Director.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., ChairmanThe Honourable Isobel Finnerty, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Banks, Bolduc, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cools, Day, Doody, Ferretti Barth, Kinsella, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Mahovlich, Stratton, Tunney.
* Ex Officio Members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The name of the Honourable Senator Day substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Furey (October 30, 2001).
The name of the Honourable Senator Furey substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Christensen (October 28, 2001).