The Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence

has the honour to table its

FIRST REPORT

Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of such legislation and other matters as were referred to it, reports, pursuant to Rule 104, that the expenses incurred by the Committee during the Third Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament are as follows:

1. With respect to its special study to examine and report on the need for a national security policy for Canada (authorized by the Senate on Friday, February 13, 2004):

a) During this study, your Committee spent 62.9 hours meeting 78 persons in hearings and fact-finding visits. In addition to hearings in Ottawa, your Committee visited Washington DC to meet its congressional counterparts, administration officials and representatives of think tanks. During this study, there were 232 references to the Committee in the print media. There were 38,715 hits on the Committee’s Website.

b) Your Committee submitted one substantive report entitled “National Emergencies: Canada’s Fragile Front Lines”.