Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology

Issue 22 - Fifteenth Report of the Committee

Wednesday, December 9, 1998

The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology has the honour to present its

FIFTEENTH REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill S-10, An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act, together with the amendments proposed by the Honourable Consiglio Di Nino and the Honourable Shirley Maheu has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of September 24, 1998, examined the said bill and now reports the same with the following amendment:

Clause 1, page 1: Replace line 8 with the following:

"ture or other reading material, including any pictorial representation or other expressive media approved for use by an educational institution in its programs, but not including any material that

(a) contains an age restriction imposed by law on its sale, purchase or viewing; or

(b) is either obscene within the meaning of section 163 of the Criminal Code, or of a pornographic nature.".

Respectfully submitted,

LOWELL MURRAY, P.C.

Chairman