Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

Issue 2 - Order of Reference

Extract of the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, March 4, 2009:

The Honourable Senator Andreychuk moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Meighen:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights be authorized to examine issues of discrimination in the hiring and promotion practices of the Federal Public Service, to study the extent to which targets to achieve employment equity are being met, and to examine labour market outcomes for minority groups in the private sector;

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-eighth Parliament be referred to the committee; and

That the Committee submit its final report to the Senate no later than March 31, 2010.

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate