MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

Meeting No. 23

Thursday, March 20, 2003

The Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans met in camera at 11:15 a.m. this day, in Room 536, Wellington Building, the Chair, Tom Wappel, presiding.

Members of the Committee present: Andy Burton, Georges Farrah, Loyola Hearn, Dominic LeBlanc, Bill Matthews, Carmen Provenzano, Jean-Yves Roy, Peter Stoffer, Tom Wappel, Bob Wood.

In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: François Côté and Alan Nixon, research officers.

Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee resumed its study of the Atlantic cod fishery (See Minutes of Proceedings, Tuesday, December 3, 2002, Meeting No. 6).

It was agreed,—That the Committee authorize the Chair to send a letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans supporting the general tenor of the report of the Newfoundland and Labrador All-Party Committee on the 2J3KL and 3Pn4RS Cod Fisheries.

The Committee proceeded to the consideration of its future business.

At 12:09 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Jeremy LeBlanc
Clerk of the Committee