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

Second Session Thirty-sixth Parliament, 1999-2000

Chairman: The Honourable MICHAEL KIRBY

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Wednesday, June 7, 2000

Issue No. 17

Twelfth meeting on: The state of the health care system in Canada

INCLUDING:
THE SEVENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE:
The 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"

• Minutes of Proceedings
• Seventh Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (57K)

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WITNESSES:

From the Department of Finance:

Guillaume Bissonnette, General Director, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch;

Barbara Anderson, Director, Federal-Provincial Relations Division, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Michael Kirby, Chairman

The Honourable Marjory LeBreton, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Banks, Beaudoin, * Boudreau, P.C. (or Hays), Callbeck, Carstairs, Cohen, Cook, Corbin, Ferretti Barth, Keon, * Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Robertson

* Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Banks substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Pépin (June 6, 2000).

The name of the Honourable Senator Ferretti Barth substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Gill (June 6, 2000).

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