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MINUTES OF
PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 27
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
The
Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage met at 8:40 a.m. this day, in Room 209,
West Block, the Chair, Clifford Lincoln, presiding.
Members of the Committee
present: Jim
Abbott, Paul Bonwick, Sarmite Bulte, Claude Duplain, Christiane Gagnon, John
Harvard, Betty Hinton, Wendy Lill, Clifford Lincoln, Grant McNally, Dennis
Mills and Tony Tirabassi.
In attendance: From the Parliamentary Research
Branch of the Library of Parliament: Joe Jackson and Terry Thomas, Research
Officers and David Black, Consultant.
Witnesses: From the Department of Canadian
Heritage: Michael Wernick, Assistant Deputy Minister, Cultural Development;
Marc O'Sullivan, Director General, Broadcasting Policy and Innovation. From Industry
Canada: Michael Helm, Director General, Telecommunications Policy Branch;
Paul Vaccani, Director, Broadcast Application Engineering; Léonard St-Aubin,
Senior Director, Business and Regulatory Analysis; Veena Rawat, Deputy Director
General, Spectrum Planning and Engineering.
Pursuant to Standing Order
108(2), the Committee resumed its study on the State of the Canadian
Broadcasting System. (See
Minutes of Proceeding, dated Thursday, November 8, 2001, Meeting No. 26).
Michael Wernick, from the
Department of Canadian Heritage, made a statement.
At 8:50 a.m., Clifford
Lincoln took the Chair.
John Harvard moved, - That
the Committee approve a travel budget in the amount of $ 43,619. for the
purpose of site visits to Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, and in the amount of $
187, 400. for public hearings in Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and Vancouver in
February, 2002 in relation to its study on the State of the Canadian
Broadcasting System, and that the Chair present the said travel budgets to the
Budget Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee.
After debate, the question
being put on the motion, it was agreed to.
Michael Helm from Industry
Canada, made a statement.
The witnesses answered
questions.
At 11:05 a.m., the
Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Christine Fisher
Clerk of the Committee