Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on 
Fisheries and Oceans

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, March 12, 2009:

With leave of the Senate,

The Honourable Senator Comeau moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cowan:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans be authorized to examine and to report on issues relating to the federal government's current and evolving policy framework for managing Canada's fisheries and oceans;

That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the committee on this subject since the beginning of the First Session of the Thirty-ninth Parliament be referred to the committee;

That the committee report from time to time to the Senate but no later than June 30, 2010, and that the Committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings until December 31, 2010.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate