Past Session:

Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011

The Honourable JOHN D. WALLACE

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Issue No. 8

First and second (final) meetings on:

Bill C-20, An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867, the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act and the Canada Elections Act

INCLUDING:
THE EIGHTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Bill C-20, An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867, the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act and the Canada Elections Act)

APPEARING

The Honourable Tim Uppal, P.C., M.P., Minister of State (Democratic Reform)

WITNESSES

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Privy Council Office:

Matthew Lynch, Director, Democratic Reform;

Jean-François Morin, Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Reform.

Elections Canada:

Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer;

Stéphane Perrault, Senior General Counsel and Senior Director;

Rennie Molnar, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Electoral Events;

François Faucher, Senior Director, Electoral Redistribution.

Statistics Canada:

Wayne Smith, Chief Statistician of Canada;

Johanne Denis, Director, Demography Division;

David Dolson, Director, Social Surveys Methods Division.

As individuals:

Andrew Sancton, Professor of Political Science, University of Western Ontario;

David E. Smith, Senior Policy Fellow, University of Regina (by video conference);

Michael Pal, Research Fellow, Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, University of Toronto;

John Courtney, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

As individuals:

Louis Massicotte, Professor, Political Science Department, Université Laval;

Matthew Mendelsohn, Director, Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, University of Toronto.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable John D. Wallace, Chair

The Honourable Joan Fraser, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Angus, Boisvenu, Chaput, *Cowan (or Tardif), Dawson, Frum, Jaffer, Lang, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), Mercer, Meredith, Runciman

* Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Mercer replaced the Honourable Senator Baker, P.C. (December 15, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Baker, P.C. replaced the Honourable Senator Mercer (December 15, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Lang replaced the Honourable Senator Neufeld (December 15, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Mercer replaced the Honourable Senator Baker, P.C. (December 14, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Neufeld replaced the Honourable Senator Lang (December 14, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Dawson replaced the Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C. (December 13, 2011).

The Honourable Senator Angus replaced the Honourable Senator Raine (December 9, 2011).

Legal and Constitutional Affairs