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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs

Issue 2 - Order of Reference

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Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, October 14, 1999:

The Honourable Senator Hays moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Graham, P.C.:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs be authorized to examine and report upon 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.

That the papers and evidence received by the Committee on the subject of this reference during the First Session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament be referred to the Committee;

That the Committee have the power to sit during sittings and adjournments of the Senate;

That the Committee have the power to permit coverage by electronic media of its public proceedings; and

That the Committee submit its final report no later than November 18, 1999.

After debate,

In amendment, the Honourable Senator Lynch-Staunton moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Kinsella, that the motion be amended by inserting the following after paragraph No. 2.:

That the Committee hear, amongst others, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of National Defence, and the Chief of Defence Staff;

After debate,

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

The question then being put on the main motion as amended, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate

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