Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue 18 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate from Tuesday, December 2, 1997:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Haidasz, P.C., seconded by the Honourable Senator Corbin, for the second reading of Bill S-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code to prohibit coercion in medical procedures that offend a person's religion or belief that human life is inviolable.

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

The Bill was then read the second time.

The Honourable Senator Carstairs, moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Hébert, that the Bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate