Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.

Wednesday, November 7, 2001

Issue No. 28

Eighth 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

APPEARING:

Gregory Selinger, Minister of Finance of Manitoba

WITNESSES:

From the Government of Manitoba:

Ron Neumann, Director of Intergovernmental Finance.

From the University of Quebec:

Michel Boucher, École nationale d'administration publique.

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)