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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 45
 
Monday, May 14, 2012
 

The Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates met in a televised session at 3:30 p.m. this day, in Room 237-C, Centre Block, the Vice-Chair, Mike Wallace, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Scott Armstrong, Denis Blanchette, Kelly Block, Peter Braid, Ron Cannan, Jacques Gourde, Jean-François Larose, Hon. John McCallum and Mike Wallace.

 

Acting Members present: Eve Adams for Bernard Trottier and Mathieu Ravignat for Linda Duncan.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Tina Lise LeGresley, Analyst; Lindsay McGlashan, Analyst; Alex Smith, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: Treasury Board Secretariat: Bill Matthews, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector; Sally Thornton, Executive Director, Expenditure Operations and Estimates, Expenditure Management Sector; Kenneth Wheat, Senior Director, Estimates, Expenditure Management Sector. Department of Finance: Douglas Nevison, General Director, Economic and Fiscal Policy Branch.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(c)(vii) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, the Committee resumed its study of the process for considering the estimates and supply.
 

Bill Matthews and Sally Thornton made statements and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.

 

At 5:13 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 5:14 p.m., the sitting resumed.

 
The Committee proceeded to the consideration of matters related to Committee business.
 

Eve Adams moved, — That the Committee proceed to sit in camera.

 

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following recorded division: YEAS: Eve Adams, Scott Armstrong, Kelly Block, Peter Braid, Ron Cannan, Jacques Gourde — 6; NAYS: Denis Blanchette, Jean-François Larose, John McCallum, Mathieu Ravignat — 4.

 

At 5:16 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 5:16 p.m., the sitting resumed in camera.

 

It was agreed, — That, notwithstanding any decisions made previously, the Committee set aside its meeting of Wednesday, May 30, 2012, for a brainstorming session on the instructions to give analysts for drafting the report on the review of the process for considering the estimates and supply.

 

At 5:24 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Marc-Olivier Girard
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
2012/07/04 3:17 p.m.