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Human Rights

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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011-12-13

Chair: The Honourable MOBINA S. B. JAFFER

Monday, May 27, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013

Issue No. 27

Sixth meeting on:

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

Fourteenth meeting on:

Issue of cyberbullying in Canada with regard to Canada's international human rights obligations under Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

First meeting on:

Bill C-279, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity)

WITNESSES:

Monday, May 27, 2013

Privy Council Office:

Wilma Vreeswijk, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, Transformation and Renewal Secretariat;

Filipe Dinis, Assistant Secretary to Cabinet, Business Transformation and Renewal Secretariat.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Randall Garrison, M.P., sponsor of the bill in the House of Commons.

Canadian Human Rights Commission:

David Langtry, Acting Chief Commissioner;

Ian Fine, Secretary General.

Egale Canada:

Ryan Dyck, Director of Research and Policy.

University of Western Ontario:

Greta Bauer, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Mobina S. B. Jaffer, Chair

The Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Andreychuk, Ataullahjan, Cordy, *Cowan (or Tardif), *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), Munson, Ngo, Oh, White, Zimmer

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Cordy replaced the Honourable Senator Hubley (May 29, 2013).

The Honourable Senator Ataullahjan replaced the Honourable Senator Greene (May 28, 2013).

The Honourable Senator Zimmer replaced the Honourable Senator Munson (May 27, 2013).

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