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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

Meeting No. 87

Monday, October 27, 2003

The Standing Committee on Finance met at 2:02 p.m. this day, in the Harbourside Ballroom 1, Renaissance Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, the Chair, Sue Barnes, presiding.

Members of the Committee present: Sue Barnes, Roy Cullen, Nick Discepola, Sophia Leung, Monte Solberg and Judy Wasylycia-Leis.

In attendance: Library of Parliament: June Dewetering, Principal ; Blayne Haggart, Analyst.

Witnesses: Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia: Diane Tannahill, President; Chelsea Miller, Coordinator. British Columbia Persons With AIDS Society: Glen Bradford, Chair of the Board of Directors; Ross Harvey, Executive Director. British Columbia Child Care Advocacy Forum: Sheila Davidson, Director of Simon Fraser University Child Care Society; Rita Chudnovsky, Facilitator. British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre: Jess Hadley, Articled Student; Robin Loxton, Director of Advocacy Access, BC Coalition for People with Disabilities. Paramedic Association of Canada: Ernie Mothus, Board Member. Canadian Federation of Students: Michael Conlon, National Researcher; Nammi Poorooshasb, Research Coordinator. Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia: Daniel Hill, President; Michael Goldberg, Research Director. University Colleges of British Columbia Consortium: Skip Triplett, President of the Kwantlen University College; Robert E. Buchan, Executive Director. Greater Vancouver Gateway Council: Bob Wilds, Managing Director; Brad Eshleman, Vice Chair and President of the B.C. Wharf Operators Association. Canadian Coalition of HIV/AIDS Stakeholder Organizations: James Boothroyd, Programme Head, Communications, National Centre, Canadian HIV Trial Network. PIVOT Legal Society: Kat Kinch, Legal Researcher. Community Based Full Employment: Peter Robinson; Michael Kreeft. Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre: John Nightingale, President. BC CEDAW Group: Christina Davidson, Member of Mosaic BC ; Bev Meslo, Member, National Action Committee on the Status of Women - BC Regional Society. Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action: Shelagh Day, Director, Poverty and Human Rights Projects; Steering Committee member.

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

Panel I: Diane Tannahill, Glen Bradford, Sheila Davidson, Rita Chudnovsky, Jess Hadley and Ernie Mothus made a statement and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.

At 3:08 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 3:30 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Panel II: Michael Conlon, Michael Goldberg, Daniel Hill, Robert E. Buchan, Bob Wilds and James Boythroyd made a statement and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.

At 4:51 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 4:56 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Panel III: Kat Kinch, Peter Robinson, John Nightingale, Christina Davidson and Shelagh Day made a statement and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.

At 6:10 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Richard Dupuis, Caroline Martin
Clerks of the Committee

2003/11/18 10:26 a.m.