Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue 17 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, November 18, 2010:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Carignan, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fortin- Duplessis, for the second reading of Bill S-12, A third Act to harmonize federal law with the civil law of Quebec and to amend certain Acts in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law.

After debate,

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

The bill was then read the second time.

The Honourable Senator Carignan moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Champagne, P.C., that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

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

Gary W. O'Brien

Clerk of the Senate