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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

Second Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2007-08

Chair: The Honourable A. RAYNELL ANDREYCHUK

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Monday, February 4, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008

Issue No. 2

Third meeting on:

Employment equity in the federal public service

and

First meeting on:

Issues relating to human rights and, inter alia, to review the machinery of government dealing with Canada's international and national human rights obligations

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - Meeting of February 4, 2008 (125K)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - Meeting of February 11, 2008 (85K)

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WITNESSES

Monday, February 4, 2008

Canadian Human Rights Commission:

Jennifer Lynch, Chief Commissioner;

Hélène Goulet, Secretary General;

Philippe Dufresne, Director and Senior Counsel, Litigation Services Division;

Natalie Dagenais, Director, Investigations Division;

Alex Dei, Director, Employment Equity Compliance Division.

Public Service Alliance of Canada:

Lisa Addario, Employment Equity Officer;

Ed Cashman, Regional Executive Vice-President.

Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada:

Gary Corbett, Vice-President;

Al Ravjiani, Ontario Regional Director and Chair of the Human Rights in the Workplace Committee;

Allison Pilon, Research Officer.

As individuals:

Mark Persaud;

James C. Morton.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada:

Adèle Dion, Director General, Human Security and Human Rights Bureau;

Robert Sinclair, Deputy Director, Human Rights Section, Human Rights, Gender Equality, Health and Population Division.

Amnesty International Canada:

Alex Neve, Secretary General.

Rights and Democracy:

Jean-Paul Hubert, Interim President;

Lloyd Lipsett, Senior Assistant to the President.

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable A. Raynell Andreychuk, Chair

The Honourable Mobina S. B. Jaffer, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Dallaire, *Hervieux-Payette, P.C. (or Tardif), Jaffer, Kinsella, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Comeau), Lovelace Nicholas, Munson, Oliver, Poy

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

Substitution pending for the Honourable Senator Pépin (February 6, 2008).

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