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MINUTES OF
PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 33
Thursday, May 1st, 2003
The
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade met in camera
at 9:14 a.m. this day, in Room 308, West Block, the Chair, Bernard Patry,
presiding.
Members of the Committee
present: Murray
Calder, Aileen Carroll, Bill Casey, Irwin Cotler, Stockwell Day, Hon. Art
Eggleton, Mark Eyking, John Harvard, Francine Lalonde, Hon. Diane Marleau,
Keith Martin, Alexa McDonough and Bernard Patry.
In attendance: From the Parliamentary Research
Branch, Library of Parliament: James Lee and Marcus Pistor, Research
Officers.
Pursuant to Standing Order
108(2), the Committee resumed consideration of a Dialogue on Foreign Policy of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs (See Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday,
February 11, 2003, Meeting No. 17).
The Committee resumed
consideration of a draft report:
It was agreed,
-- That the draft report as
amended be adopted as a Report to the House and that the Chair or his designate
present it to the House.
-- That, pursuant to
Standing Order 109, the Committee request that the Government table a
comprehensive response to this report.
-- That the Chair be
authorized to make such typographical and editorial changes as may be necessary
without changing the substance of the report.
-- That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(1)(a), the Committee authorize
the printing of brief dissenting and/or supplementary opinions as appendices to
this report immediately after the signature of the Chair, that the opinions be
sent to the Clerk of the Committee by electronic mail in both official
languages on/before Tuesday May 6, 2003 at 12 noon.
It was agreed, -- That in cases where a witness for reasons of
incapacity requires assistance for travel, the Committee, on the approval of
the Chair, may pay the travel costs of an accompanying person.
At 11:12 a.m., the
Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Stephen Knowles
Clerk of the Committee