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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chair: The Honourable A. RAYNELL ANDREYCHUK
Monday, June 4, 2001
Monday, June 11, 2001

Issue No. 2

First and second meetings on: Issues relating to human rights and, inter alia, the machinery of government dealing with Canada's international and national human rights obligations

INCLUDING:
THE FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Budget)

WITNESSES:

Monday, June 4, 2001:

From the Department of Political Science, York University:

Professor Anne F. Bayefsky.

From Amnesty International Canada:

Alex Neve, Secretary-General.

Monday, June 11, 2001:

From the Department of Canadian Heritage:

Norman Moyer, Assistant Deputy Minister, Canadian Identity, and Chair of the Continuing Committee of Officials on Human Rights.

From the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade:

Adèle Dion, Director, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs and International Women's Equality Division;

John T. Holmes, Director, United Nations, Criminal and Treaty Law Division.

From the Department of Justice:

Irit Weiser, Director, Human Rights Law Section;

Paul Rishworth, University of Auckland.

From the University of Saskatchewan:

Professor Ken Norman.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable A. Raynell Andreychuk, Chair

The Honourable Sheila Finestone, P.C., Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Beaudoin, * Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Ferretti Barth, * Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Oliver, Poy, Watt, Wilson

* 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 Milne was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Finestone, P.C. (June 11, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Finestone, P.C. was substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Milne (June 12, 2001).

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