Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on the
Subject Matter of Bill C-36

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

The Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Milne:

That a special committee of the Senate be appointed to examine the subject matter of Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Official Secrets Act, the Canada Evidence Act, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act and other Acts, and to enact measures respecting the registration of charities, in order to combat terrorism, in advance of the said Bill coming before the Senate;

That the Bill be referred to the said special committee in due course;

That the following Senators be appointed to serve on the Special Committee: namely the Honourable Senators An dreychuk, Bacon, Beaudoin, Fairbairn, P.C., Fraser, Furey, Jaffer, Kelleher, P.C, Kenny, Murray, P.C. Stollery and Tkachuk, and that four members constitute a quorum;

That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to examine witnesses, to report from time to time and to print such papers and evidence from day to day as may be ordered by the committee;

That the committee have power to sit during sittings and adjournments of the Senate;

That the committee have power to authorize television and radio broadcasting, as it deems appropriate, of any or all of its proceedings;

That the committee have power to retain the services of professional, clerical, stenographic and such other staff as deemed advisable by the committee; and

That the committee be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit any report related to its study of the subject-matter of the Bill with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not then sitting, and that any report so deposited be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber.

After debate, In amendment, the Honourable Senator Kinsella moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stratton, that the motion be amended by adding after the first paragraph the following:

"That the committee in its examination shall inter alia explore the protection of human rights and civil liberties in the application of this Act;".

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

The Senate resumed debate on the motion, as amended, of the Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C., seconded by the Honourable Senator Milne:

That a special committee of the Senate be appointed to examine the subject matter of Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Official Secrets Act, the Canada Evidence Act, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act and other Acts, and to enact measures respecting the registration of charities, in order to combat terrorism, in advance of the said Bill coming before the Senate;

That the committee in its examination shall inter alia explore the protection of human rights and civil liberties in the application of this Act;

That the Bill be referred to the said special committee in due course;

That the following Senators be appointed to serve on the Special Committee: namely the Honourable Senators An dreychuk, Bacon, Beaudoin, Fairbairn, P.C., Fraser, Furey, Jaffer, Kelleher, P.C, Kenny, Murray, P.C. Stollery and Tkachuk, and that four members constitute a quorum;

That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to examine witnesses, to report from time to time and to print such papers and evidence from day to day as may be ordered by the committee;

That the committee have power to sit during sittings and adjournments of the Senate;

That the committee have power to authorize television and radio broadcasting, as it deems appropriate, of any or all of its proceedings;

That the committee have power to retain the services of professional, clerical, stenographic and such other staff as deemed advisable by the committee; and

That the committee be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit any report related to its study of the subject-matter of the Bill with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not then sitting, and that any report so deposited be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber.

After debate, The question being put on the motion, as amended, it was adopted on division.

Paul Bélisle 

Clerk of the Senate