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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2001

Issue No. 27

Seventh 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 taxation

• Minutes of Proceedings
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (71K)

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APPEARING:

Neil LeBlanc, Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia

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WITNESS:

From the Government of Nova Scotia:

Elizabeth A. Cody, Executive Director, Fiscal and Economic Policy, Nova Scotia Finance Department.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Chairman

The Honourable Isobel Finnerty, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Banks, Bolduc, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cools, Doody, Ferretti Barth, Furey, 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 Stratton substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Comeau (November 6, 2001)

The name of the Honourable Senator Comeau substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Stratton (November 5, 2001)

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