Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament
Issue 4 - Orders of Reference
Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Tuesday, May 17, 2005:
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Corbin, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook:
That the Rules of the Senate be amended by replacing rule 32 with the following:
"32. (1) A Senator desiring to speak in the Senate shall rise in the place where that Senator normally sits and address the rest of the Senators.
(2) Any Senator who speaks in the Senate shall do so in one of the official languages.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a Senator desiring to address the Senate in Inuktitut shall so inform the Clerk of the Senate at least four hours before the start of that sitting of the Senate.
(4) The Clerk of the Senate shall make the necessary arrangements to provide interpretation of remarks made in Inuktitut into the two official languages.
(5) Remarks made in Inuktitut shall be published in the Debates of the Senate in the two official languages, with a note in the Journals of the Senate explaining that they were delivered in Inuktitut.''
After debate,
With leave of the Senate and pursuant to rule 30, the motion was modified to read as follows:
That the question that the Rules of the Senate be amended by replacing rule 32 with the following:
"32. (1) A Senator desiring to speak in the Senate shall rise in the place where that Senator normally sits and address the rest of the Senators.
(2) Any Senator who speaks in the Senate shall do so in one of the official languages.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a Senator desiring to address the Senate in Inuktitut shall so inform the Clerk of the Senate at least four hours before the start of that sitting of the Senate.
(4) The Clerk of the Senate shall make the necessary arrangements to provide interpretation of remarks made in Inuktitut into the two official languages.
(5) Remarks made in Inuktitut shall be published in the Debates of the Senate in the two official languages, with a note in the Journals of the Senate explaining that they were delivered in Inuktitut.''
be referred to the Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament.
The question being put on the motion, as modified, it was adopted.
Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Tuesday, May 31, 2005:
The Honourable Senator Banks moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Ferretti Barth:
That the Rules of the Senate be amended in Rule 96 by adding, in subsection (7), the following:
"In particular, clause-by-clause consideration of legislation shall not be dispensed with unless with leave.''
After debate,
With leave of the Senate,
The Honourable Senator Banks moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Corbin:
That the question be referred to the Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, June 9, 2005:
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Lavigne, seconded by the Honourable Senator Robichaud, P.C.:
That the Rules of the Senate be amended by adding after rule 135 the following:
135.1 Every Senator shall, after taking his or her Seat, take and subscribe an oath of allegiance to Canada, in the following form, before the Speaker or a person authorized to take the oath:
I, (full name of the Senator), do swear (or solemnly affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Canada.
And on the motion in amendment of the Honourable Senator Day, seconded by the Honourable Senator Lavigne:
That the motion be amended by replacing, in the proposed rule 135.1, the word "shall'', with the word "may''.
The Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Robichaud, P.C., that the question be referred to Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, June 16, 2005:
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool:
That, in order to facilitate references to the various classes of bills introduced in the Senate, namely government bills, public bills or private bills presented by Senators, the Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament be authorized to examine and report upon establishing a new system of numbering for Senate bills.
After debate,
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Paul C. Bélisle
Clerk of the Senate