Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs
Issue 7 - Order of Reference
Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, March 2, 2000:
The Honourable Senator Stollery moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook:
That, notwithstanding the Orders of the Senate adopted on Thursday October 14, 1999, on Wednesday November 17, 1999 and on Thursday December 16, 1999, the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, which was 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, be empowered to present its final report no later than April 14, 2000;
That the committee retain all powers necessary to publicize the findings of the committee contained in the final report until April 28, 2000; and
That the committee be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit its report with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not then sitting; and that the report be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Tuesday, April 4, 2000:
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Pearson, seconded by the Honourable Senator Finestone, P.C., for the second reading of Bill S-18, An Act to amend the National Defence Act (non-deployment of persons under the age of eighteen years to theatres of hostilities).
After debate,
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
The bill was then read the second time.
The Honourable Senator Hays moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Moore, that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Paul C. Bélisle
Clerk of the Senate