Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs and International Trade

First Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2006-07

Chair: The Honourable CONSIGLIO DI NINO

Tuesday, May 8, 2007 (in camera)
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Issue No. 15

Fifth and sixth (final) meetings on:
Special study on the evacuation from Lebanon

First and second (final) meetings on:
Bill C-48, An Act to amend the Criminal Code in order to implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption

INCLUDING:
THE TENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Budget, Foreign Relations in General)

THE ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Bill C-48)

THE TWELFTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special Study on the evacuation from Lebanon)

APPEARING:

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The Honourable Robert Nicholson, M.P., P.C., Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

WITNESSES:

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada:

Keith Morrill, Director, Criminal, Security and Treaty Law Division.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Transparency International:

Bill McClosky, Incoming Board Member.

As an individual (by video conference):

Raymond Baker, Author of Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to renew the Free-Market System.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Consiglio Di Nino, Chair

The Honourable Peter A. Stollery, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Corbin, Dawson, De Bané, P.C., Downe, *Hervieux-Payette, P.C. (or Tardif), Johnson, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Comeau), Mahovlich, Merchant, Segal, Smith, P.C.

*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 Dawson substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Peterson (May 3, 2007).

The name of the Honourable Senator Johnson substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Eyton (May 7, 2007).