Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue 1 - First Report of the Committee

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to table its

FIRST REPORT

Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of such legislation and other matters as were referred to it, reports, pursuant to rule 104, that the expenses incurred by the Committee during the First Session of the 38th Parliament are as follows:

With respect to its examination of legislation:

In addition, your Committee was authorized to incur expenses for the purposes of its examination of petitions received to declare Ottawa a bilingual city, as well as its examination of the implications of including non-derogation clauses in legislation. Your Committee did not incur expenses for either study.

Your Committee examined 14 bills, four of which it reported without amendment, six of which it reported without amendment but with observations, and three of which it did not complete its work. In addition, your committee reported the following bill with amendments and observations:

Bill S-11, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (lottery schemes).

During the First Session of the 38th Parliament, your Committee received 22 orders of reference, held 55 meetings, heard more than 99 hours of testimony from 130 witnesses and submitted 14 reports in relation to its work.

Respectfully submitted,

DONALD H. OLIVER

Chair