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

Issue 2 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, November 25, 1999:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Carstairs, seconded by the Honourable Senator Mercier:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology be authorized to examine and report upon developments since the tabling in June 1995 of the final report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, entitled: Of Life and Death. In particular, the Committee shall be authorized to examine:

The progress on the implementation of the unanimous recommendations made in the report;

Developments in Canada respecting the issues dealt with in the report;

Developments in foreign jurisdictions respecting the issues dealt with in the report; and

That the Committee submit its final report no later than June 6, 2000.

After debate,

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate