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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 19
Thursday, November 18, 1999
The Standing Committee on Finance met in a televised session at 3:38 p.m. this day, in Room 253-D, Centre Block, the Chair, Maurizio Bevilacqua, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Maurizio Bevilacqua, Roy Cullen, Sophia Leung, Hon. Lorne Nystrom and Paul Szabo.
Acting Members present: Carolyn Bennett for Roger Gallaway; Paul Forseth for Richard Harris.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Jean Soucy, Researcher.
Witnesses: From the T-Base Research & Communications Inc.: Sharlyn Ayotte, President and CEO; Leonard J. Fowler Jr., Chair and Chief Operating Officer. From the Association of Canadian Community Colleges: Gerry Brown, President; Terry-Anne Boyles, Vice-President. From the Business Coalition on Cost Recovery: Jayson Myers, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Alliance of Manufacturers & Exporters Canada; Jean Szkotnicki, President, Canadian Animal Health Institute. From the Canadian Arts Summit: James D. Fleck, Chair, Advocacy Committee; Susan Glass, Chair; Sarah J.E. Iley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Council for Business and the Arts in Canada. From the Fisheries Council of Canada: Patrick McGuinness, Vice-President.
In accordance with its mandate under Standing Order 83.1, the Committee resumed its Pre-Budget Consultations. (See Minutes of Proceedings, Tuesday, November 2, 1999, Meeting No. 2).
Sharlyn Ayotte, Gerry Brown, Terry-Anne Boyles, Jayson Myers, Jean Szkotnicki, Susan Glass, Jim Fleck and Patrick McGuinness made statements and, with the other participants in the roundtable, answered questions.
At 5:40 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Pat Steenberg
Clerk of the Committee