Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on
Transportation Safety and Security

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, June 18, 1998:

The Honourable Senator Forrestall moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Johnson:

That a special committee of the Senate be appointed to examine and report upon the state of transportation safety and security in Canada and to complete a comparative review of technical issues and legal and regulatory structures with a view to ensuring that transportation safety and security in Canada are of such high quality as to meet the needs of Canada and Canadians in the twenty-first century;

That the committee be composed of seven senators, three of whom shall constitute a quorum;

That the committee be empowered to send for persons, papers and records, to examine witnesses, to report from time to time and to print such papers and evidence from day to day as may be ordered by the committee;

That the papers and evidence received by the Subcommittee on Transportation Safety of the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications taken on the subject and the work accomplished during the Second Session of the Thirty-fifth Parliament and the First Session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament be referred to the committee;

That the committee be empowered to engage the services of such counsel and technical, clerical and other personnel as may be necessary for the purpose of its study;

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

That the committee be empowered to adjourn from place to place within and outside Canada;

That the committee present its final report no later than March 31, 1999; 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