Finance Committee on March 12th, 2008

Evidence of meeting #30 for Finance in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was forestry.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Committee Business
Briefing on Certain Former Employees of SDL Optics, Inc. Remission Order
Study on Direct Assistance Measures and Fiscal Environment for the Forestry and Manufacturing Sectors

MPs speaking

Rob Merrifield
Ken Boshcoff
Paul Crête
Joe Comuzzi
Thomas Mulcair
Jean-Yves Laforest
Mike Wallace
Dean Del Mastro
Gordon O'Connor
Garth Turner
Ted Menzies
John McCallum
Robert Bouchard
Rick Dykstra

Also speaking

Lynn Peterson  Mayor, Northwest Forestry Coalition, City of Thunder Bay
Guy Chevrette  President and Chief Executive Director, Director of Communications, Quebec Forest Industry Council
Joe Hanlon  President, Local 2693, United Steelworkers
Erin Weir  Economist, United Steelworkers
David Coles  President, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
Keith Newman  Director, Research, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
Emilio Rigato  As an Individual

5:15 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Thank you very much.

I want to thank you, Mr. Minister, for coming and for being so frank, open, and concise with your answers. That's refreshing. It's refreshing to see a minister take charge of his files.

With that, we will adjourn this meeting.