Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on
Anti-terrorism

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, March 8, 2012:

The Honourable Senator Carignan moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Di Nino:

That a special committee of the Senate be appointed to consider, after second reading, such Government legislation as may be referred to it during the current session, including Bill S-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act and the Security of Information Act,

That, notwithstanding rule 85(1)(b), the special committee comprise nine members namely, the Honourable Senators Andreychuk, Dagenais, Dallaire, Day, Frum, Joyal, P.C., Segal, Smith, P.C. (Cobourg), and Tkachuk, and that four members constitute a quorum;

That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to examine witnesses, and to print such papers and evidence from day to day as may be ordered by the committee;

That, pursuant to rule 95(3)(a), the committee have power to sit Monday to Friday, even though the Senate may then be adjourned for a period exceeding one week;

That the committee be authorized to permit coverage by electronic media of its public proceedings with the least possible disruption of its hearings; and

That the committee have power to retain the services of professional, clerical, stenographic and such other staff as deemed advisable by the committee.

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

Gary W. O'Brien

Clerk of the Senate