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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 24
Thursday, October 18, 2001
The
Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs met in a televised
session at 3:30 p.m. this day, in Room 253-D, Centre Block, the Chair, David
Pratt, presiding.
Members of the Committee
present: Claude
Bachand, Colleen Beaumier, Leon Benoit, John O'Reilly, David Pratt, Peter
Stoffer, Elsie Wayne, Bryon Wilfert.
In attendance: From the Parliamentary Research
Branch of the Library of Parliament: Wolf Koerner and Michel Rossignol,
Research Assistants.
Witnesses: From the Department of National
Defence: Margaret Purdy, Associate Deputy Minister, Office of Critical
Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness; James Harlick, Assistant
Deputy Minister, Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency
Preparedness.
Pursuant to Standing Order
108(2), the Committee resumed consideration of its study on the state of readiness
of the Canadian Forces.
Ms. Purdy made an opening
statement and, with the other witness, answered questions.
At 5:32 p.m., the Committee
adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Diane Deschamps
Clerk of the Committee