moved:
Motion No. 45
That Bill C-4 be amended by adding after line 40, on page 21, the following:
“30.1 (1) The Auditor General for Canada Shall examine the operations of the Corporation over the five year period ending December 31, 2002 and shall determine whether the Corporation has met its object as described in section 5, and report to the Minister thereon no later than September 1, 2003.
(2) The minister shall cause the report to be laid before both Houses of parliament on one of the first three days on which the House next sits.
(3) The report shall be deemed referred to such committee of the House of Commons as is established to consider matters relating to agriculture.
(4) Unless the committee has reported to the House and the House as concurred in the report or amended the report and concurred in it as amended by December 31, 2003 and the report or amended report is in a form that concludes that the Corporation has substantially met its object for the five year period, this Act is repealed on June 30, 2004.
(5) If the Governor in Council determines that the process described in subsections (1) to (4) has been delayed by emergency circumstances, the Governor in Council may, by order, defer the repeal of this Act by a period not exceeding twelve months.”