Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights
First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001
Chair: The Honourable A. RAYNELL ANDREYCHUKMonday, November 26, 2001
Monday, December 10, 2001
Issue No. 5
Seventh and eighth (last) meetings on: Issues relating to human rights and inter alia, the machinery of government dealing with Canada's international and national human rights obligations- Minutes of Proceedings
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings for November 26, 2001 (157K)
- Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings for December 10, 2001 (135K)
WITNESSES:
Monday, November 26, 2001From the British Columbia Human Rights Commission:
Mr. Harinder Mahil, Acting Chief Commissioner.
From the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission:
Mr. Charles Ferris, Legal Counsel.
From the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission:
Mr. James E. Dewar, Q.C., Chair;
Ms Mayann E. Francis, Executive Director.
From the Canadian Human Rights Commission:
Ms Michelle Falardeau-Ramsay, Q.C., Chief Commissioner;
Mr. John Hucker, Secretary General;
Mr. Richard Tardif, General Counsel.
Monday, December 10, 2001
From the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission:
Ms Donna Scott, Chief Commissioner and Director.
From the Manitoba Human Rights Commission:
Ms Janet Baldwin, Chairperson.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable A. Raynell Andreychuk, ChairThe Honourable Sheila Finestone, P.C., Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Beaudoin, *Carstairs, P.C., (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cochrane, Ferretti Barth, Finestone, P.C., Kinsella, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Poy, Taylor, 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 Ferretti Barth substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool (November 7, 2001).
The name of the Honourable Senator Finestone, P.C., substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Phalen (November 7, 2001).
The name of the Honourable Senator Poy substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Finnerty (November 7, 2001).
The name of the Honourable Senator Lapointe substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Finestone, P.C. (November 14, 2001).
The name of the Honourable Senator Finestone, P.C., substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Lapointe (November 26, 2001).
The name of the Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C., substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Poy (November 26, 2001).
The name of the Honourable Senator Poy substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C. (November 29, 2001).