The Committee met in Ottawa from December 7 to 9th with the following members in attendance:  Barry Melanson, Sabri Khayat, Bob Campbell and Susan Duncan.

The Committee prepared the December/January newsletter for publication and had a general discussion on other UTE communication items.  The following topics were addressed:

• The Committee wrote an article on Brother Marcel Bertrand’s award “Assistant-Commissioner Award in Partnership with Unions”
• The Committee reviewed the Policy and Procedure Manual and the Help Book
• The Committee discussed putting something on the web about the long term awards, the ICA sponsorship winners and the scholarship winners
• Some members have suggested that we move to an electronic only version of the newsletter.  The Committee discussed this and decided to continue to print the newsletter.
• The Committee had a discussion on the daily convention updates