Past Session:

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

Second Session Thirty-fifth Parliament, 1996-97

Chair: The Honourable MABEL M. DeWARE

Monday, April 21, 1997

Issue No. 26

Third meeting on: Bill C-66, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (Part I) and the Corporations and Labour Unions Returns Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

APPEARING:

The Honourable Alfonso Gagliano, P.C., M.P., Minister of Labour

WITNESSES:

From The Mining Association of Canada:

Gisèle Jacob, Vice-President, Public Affairs;

Robert Cunningham, Executive Director, Saskatchewan Mining Association;

Donald Downing, President, Coal Association of Canada.

From Milner Fenerty, Barristers and Solicitors:

Gerald D. Chipeur, Partner;

Thomas Wakeling, Partner.

From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada:

Bruce Phillips, Privacy Commissioner of Canada;

Holly Harris, General Counsel.

Olivier Laurendeau, Barrister and Solicitor.

From the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association:

Bob Beckwith, Corporate Traffic Manager, E.B. Eddy Forest Products;

Brian McGurk, Corporate Manager, Transportation, Avenor Inc.;

Garry D. Sudul, Vice-President, Human Resources, J.D. Irving, Ltd.;

David W. Church, Director, Transportation, Recycling and Purchasing, CPPA;

Madeleine McNicoll, Director, Human Resources, CPPA.

From the Air Canada Pilots' Association:

Captain Tom Jerrard, President;

Captain Yves Filion.

From the Department of Human Resources Development:

Michael McDermott, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Legislative Review, Part I of the Canada Labour Code.

From the Business Council of British Columbia:

Tim M. McEwan, Senior Policy Analyst;

Judy Shuttleworth, Director, Employee Relations, BC Telecom Inc.

From the Western Canadian Shippers' Coalition:

Robert J. Renwick, Chairman, WCSC; Transportation/Logistics Consultant to the Council of Forest Industries.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Mabel M. DeWare, Chair

The Honourable Peter Bosa, Deputy Chairman

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Bonnell, Cogger, Cools, *Fairbairn, P.C. (or Graham), Forest, Haidasz, Lavoie-Roux, Losier-Cool, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Maheu, Phillips

* Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to Rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Bosa substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Perrault (April 12, 1997).