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

Issue 26 - Minutes of Proceedings

OTTAWA, Wednesday, February 17, 1999
(55)

[English]

The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology met this day in Room 705 Victoria Building, at 3:50 p.m., the Chairman, the Honourable Lowell Murray, presiding.

Members of the committee present: The Honourable Senators Butts, Cohen, Cools, Gill, Lavoie-Roux, LeBreton, Murray. P.C. and Poy (8).

Also in attendance: The official reporters of the Senate.

Pursuant to the Order of Reference adopted by the Senate on Thursday, June 18, 1998, the committee resumed consideration of the special study on the dimensions of social cohesion in Canada in the context of globalization and other economic and structural forces that influence trust and reciprocity among Canadians. (For complete text of Order of Reference, see proceedings of the committee, Issue No. 17, dated September 29, 1998).

WITNESSES:

From the National Association of Career Colleges:

Paul Kitchin, Executive Director.

From the Association of Canadian Community Colleges:

Terry Anne Boyles, Vice-President.

From the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Student Financial Assistance:

Thomas Townsend, Co-Chair.

The Chair made a statement.

Senator LeBreton moved -- That the Chairman and Deputy Chairman be authorized to receive and adopt, on behalf of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, the report on the state of health care in Canada concerning veterans of war and the Canadian Service persons of the Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs.

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

Mr. Kitchin made a statement. Ms Boyles made a statement. Mr. Townsend made a statement. The witnesses answered questions.

At 5:14 p.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

ATTEST:

Catherine Piccinin

Clerk of the Committee