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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

Meeting No. 78

Tuesday, October 7, 2003

The Standing Committee on Finance met in a televised session at 9:34 a.m. this day, in Room 253-D Centre Block, the Chair, Sue Barnes, presiding.

Members of the Committee present: Sue Barnes, Rick Casson, Roy Cullen, Nick Discepola, Maria Minna, Shawn Murphy, Pierre Paquette, Pauline Picard, Gary Pillitteri, Tony Valeri, Judy Wasylycia-Leis and Bryon Wilfert.

In attendance: Library of Parliament: June Dewetering, Principal.

Witnesses: Salvation Army: Danielle Shaw-Buchholz, Government Relations Director; Mildred Jarvis, National Long Term Care Consultant. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Ellen Russell, Senior Research Economist; Bruce Campbell, Executive Director. National Children's Alliance: Margaret Fietz, President and Chief Executive Officer; Dianne Bascombe, Director, National Children's Alliance and Social Policy Issues. Insurance Bureau of Canada: Suzanne Sabourin, Executive Director, Government Relations; Jane Voll, Acting Vice President, Policy and Development and Chief Economist. Canadian Co-operative Association: Glen Tully, President; Jean-Yves Lord, Executive Director. Alliance to End Homelessness: Maura Volante, Coordinator. Société de transport de l'Outaouais: Lawrence Cannon, General Manager; Georges O. Gratton, Director. Coalition pour le renouvellement des infrastructures du Québec: Gilles Vaillancourt, Mayor of Laval, President of the Coalition; Marc Couture, President, Technical Committee. Canadian Airport Duty Free Operators Association: André Bergeron, Executive Director. National Task Force to Promote Employer-Provided Tax-Exempt Transit Benefits: Amelia Shaw, Manager of Public Affairs, Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA); Donna-Lynn Ahee, Secretary-Treasurer, Amalgamated Transit Union, Canadian Council.

Pursuant to Standing Order 83(1), the Committee resumed its pre-budget consultations.

Panel I: Danielle Shaw-Buchholz, Mildred Jarvis, Ellen Russell, Margaret Fietz, Diane Bascombe, Suzanne Sabourin, Glen Tully and Jean-Yves Lord made a statement and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.

At 11:04 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 11:07 a.m., the sitting resumed.

Panel II: Lawrence Cannon made a statement.

At 11:17 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 11:42 a.m., the sitting resumed.

Maura Volante, Gilles Vaillancourt, André Bergeron and Donna-Lynn Ahee made a statement and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.

At 12:36 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Richard Dupuis, Caroline Martin
Clerks of the Committee

2003/11/18 8:51 a.m.