Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Banking, Trade and Commerce

Issue 56 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, June 17, 1999:

At 3:55 p.m., and pursuant to Rule 66(3), the Senate proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion in amendment of the Honourable Senator Stratton, to the motion of the Honourable Senator Kirby, seconded by the Honourable Senator Butts, for the third reading of Bill C-78, An Act to establish the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, to amend the Public Service Superannuation Act, the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act, the Defence Services Pension Continuation Act, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Continuation Act, the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act and the Canada Post Corporation Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act.

The question was put on the motion in amendment of the Honourable Senator Stratton, seconded by the Honourable Senator Lynch-Staunton, that the bill be not now read the third time but that it be referred back to the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce so that the committee may monitor discussions between Treasury Board and affected unions over matters contained in the letter of the President of the Treasury Board referred to in the Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce on Bill C-78; and

That the committee report back to the Senate no later than September 7, 1999.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate