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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Finance

Second Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2002

Chairman: The Honourable LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Tuesday, November 5, 2002 (in camera)
Tuesday, November 19, 2002 (in camera)
Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Issue No. 1

Organization meeting
Future Business of the committee
and
First meeting on: Supplementary Estimates (A) 2002-2003

INCLUDING: THE FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Budget)

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings
• First Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, October 29, 2002 (19K)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, November 26, 2002 (77K)

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WITNESSES:

From the Treasury Board Secretariat:

Mr. Richard J. Neville, Deputy Comptroller General, Comptrollership Branch;

Mr. David Bickerton, Executive Director, Expenditure Operations and Estimates Directorate, Comptrollership Branch.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Chairman

The Honourable Joseph A. Day, Deputy Chair

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The Honourable Senators:

Biron, Bolduc, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Comeau, Cools, Doody, Ferretti Barth, Finnerty, Furey, Gauthier, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Mahovlich,

*Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Comeau substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Eyton (November 7, 2002).

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