Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

Issue 2 - Orders of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Tuesday, March 23, 2010:

The Honourable Senator Johnson moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stratton:

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 June 30, 2010.

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

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, May 5, 2010:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Comeau, seconded by the Honourable Senator Tkachuk, for the second reading of Bill S-4, An Act respecting family homes situated on First Nation reserves and matrimonial interests or rights in or to structures and lands situated on those reserves.

After debate,

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

The bill was then read the second time.

The Honourable Senator Comeau moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Wallace, that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights.

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

Gary W. O'Brien

Clerk of the Senate