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SOCI - Standing Committee

Social Affairs, Science and Technology

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35-2 35th Parliament, 2nd Session (February 27, 1996 - April 27, 1997)
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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology

Issue 10 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Wednesday, June 19, 1996:

Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Bonnell, calling the attention of the Senate to the serious state of post-secondary education in Canada.

Debate concluded.

With leave of the Senate,

The Honourable Senator Bonnell moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Landry:

That the Inquiry on the serious state of post-secondary education in Canada be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology; and

That, while respecting provincial constitutional responsibilities, the Committee be authorized to examine and report upon the state of post-secondary education in Canada, including the review of:

(a) the national, regional, provincial and local goals of the Canadian post-secondary education system;

(b) the social, cultural, economic and political importance of post-secondary education to Canada;

(c) the roles of the federal, provincial and territorial governments;

(d) the ability of Canadian universities and colleges to respond to the new, emerging educational marketplace including the changing curriculum and new technologies, distance, continuing and cooperative education, and adult and part-time education; and

(e) the Canada Student Loans Program and the different provincial and territorial student financial assistance programs as well as the growing concern over student indebtedness;

and to identify areas of greater cooperation between all levels of government, the private sector and educational institutions;

That the Committee have the power to engage the services of such counsel and technical, clerical and other personnel as may be necessary for the purposes of its examination;

That the Committee have power to sit during sittings and adjournments of the Senate;

That the Committee adjourn from place to place in Canada when it begins its examination;

That the Committee be authorized to permit coverage by electronic media on its public proceedings of the examination, with the least possible disruption of its hearings;

That the Committee submit its final report no later than February 28, 1997; and

That, notwithstanding usual practices, if the Senate is not sitting when the final report of the Committee is completed, the Committee shall deposit its report with the Clerk of the Senate, and said report shall thereupon be deemed to have been tabled in this Chamber.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate

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