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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

First Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2006

Chair: The Honourable A. RAYNELL ANDREYCHUK

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Issue No. 11

Fourteenth meeting on:

The rights and freedoms of children

and

First meeting on:

Reviewing the machinery of government dealing with Canada's international and national human rights obligations

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings (92K)

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WITNESSES:

University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law:

Craig Forcese, Assistant Professor;

Farzana Jiwani, Student;

Mary Mitsios, Student;

Jennifer Stebbing, Student.

Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children:

Kathy Vandergrift, Chair.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable A. Raynell Andreychuk, Chair

The Honourable Sharon Carstairs, P.C., Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Dallaire, *Hays (or Fraser), Kinsella, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Comeau), Lovelace Nicholas, Munson, Nancy Ruth, Pépin, Poy

*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 Pépin substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Peterson (October 4, 2006).

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