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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 15
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
The Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities met at 3:25 p.m. this day, in Room 308, West Block, the Vice-Chair, Eugène Bellemare, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Eugène Bellemare, Norman Doyle, Ovid Jackson, Judi Longfield, Gurbax Malhi, Raymond Simard, Monte Solberg, Larry Spencer and Diane St-Jacques.
Acting Members present: Sébastien Gagnon for Suzanne Tremblay, Yvon Godin for Libby Davies and Joe Fontana for John Finlay.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Kevin Kerr and William Young, Research Officers.
Witnesses: From the Office of the Auditor General of Canada: Sheila Fraser, Auditor General of Canada; Peter Simeoni, Principal; Marise Bédard, Director. From the Department of Finance: Louis Lévesque, Assistant Deputy Minister, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch; Peter DeVries, Director, Fiscal Policy Division, Economic and Fiscal Policy Division. From the Department of Human Resources Development: Charles Nixon, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Insurance; Wilma Vreeswijk, Director General, Labour Market Policy.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee resumed the Review of the Employment Insurance Reserves
Sheila Fraser, Louis Lévesque and Charles Nixon made opening statements and with Peter DeVries and Wilma Vreeswijk answered questions.
At 5:20 p.m., the sitting was suspended.
At 5:23 p.m., the Committee proceeded to sit in camera.
At 5:23 p.m., Judi Longfield took the Chair.
The Chair presented the First Report of the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure:
FIRST REPORT
Your Steering Committee met on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 to plan the Committee’s future business and has agreed to make the following recommendations :
- That the Committee hold meetings in February on: HRDC’s Social Insurance Number Action Plan, HRDC’s Employment Insurance Service Delivery and on Employment Insurance Reserves.
- That the Committee continue its study on Literacy Issues in March and April.
- That the Committee consider the Main Estimates in May.
It was agreed, -- That the First Report of the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure be adopted.
It was agreed, -- That the Budget Request of the Subcommittee on Children and Youth at Risk in the amount of $29,300 be adopted.
The Committee resumed consideration of its draft report entitled “Taking the necessary measures to enhance the integrity of the Social Insurance Number: A Review of the Action Plan”.
It was agreed, -- That the final report (as amended) on “Taking the necessary measures to enhance the integrity of the Social Insurance Number: A Review of the Action Plan” be adopted as the Second Report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.
It was agreed, -- That the Clerk be authorized to make such editorial and typographical changes as necessary without changing the substance of the Report.
It was agreed, -- That the Chair be authorized to table the Report in the House.
It was agreed, -- That the Committee print 250 copies of its Report in a bilingual format.
It was agreed, -- That, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee request the Government table a comprehensive response to this report; however, notwithstanding the deadline of 150 days stipulated in Standing Order 109, the Committee request that the comprehensive response to this report be tabled within ninety (90) days of the presentation of the report to the House.
It was agreed, -- That, pursuant to Standing Order 108 (1) (a), the Committee authorizes the printing of dissenting or supplementary opinions as an appendix to this report immediately after the signature of the Chair; that the dissenting or supplementary opinion(s) be limited to not more than one page; (font = 12; line spacing = 1.5) and that the dissenting or supplementary opinion(s) be delivered in electronic format in both official languages to the Clerk of the Committee not later than 24 hours after the meeting.
At 5:53 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
José Cadorette
Committee Clerk