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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs

Issue 39 - Minutes of Proceedings

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OTTAWA, Tuesday, June 1, 1999
(60)

[English]

The Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs met at 3:37 p.m. this day in Room 160-S, Centre Block, the Chair, the Honourable John B. Stewart, presiding.

Members of the committee presents: The Honourable Senators Andreychuk, Bolduc, Di Nino, Forrestall, Grafstein, Stewart, Stollery and Whelan, P.C. (8).

Other senators present: The Honourable Senators Mahovlich, Prud'homme, P.C. and Roche (3).

In attendance: From the Research Branch of the Library of Parliament: Messrs Wolfgang Koerner, David Goetz and Jack Stilborn.

Also in attendance: The official reporters of the Senate.

WITNESSES:

As individuals:

Major-General (Retired) Lewis MacKenzie;

Professor Stephen Scott, Faculty of Law, McGill University.

The committee resumed consideration of the order of reference pertaining to its examination of the ramifications to Canada:

1. of the changed mandate of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Canada's role in NATO since the demise of the Warsaw Pact, the end of the Cold War and the recent addition to membership in NATO of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic; and

2. of peacekeeping, with particular reference to Canada's ability to participate in it under the auspices of any international body of which Canada is a member. (See committee proceedings of April 14, 1999, issue No. 33. )

Major-General MacKenzie made a statement and answered questions.

Professor Scott made a statement and answered questions.

Professor Scott tabled a document entitled "Notes for Evidence to Be Given to the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs" with the Clerk of the Committee.

At 5:57 p.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

ATTEST:

Timothy Ross Wilson

Acting Clerk of the Committee

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