Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Security and Defence

Issue 7 - Order of Reference

Extract of the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, May 3, 2012:

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

That, in accordance with rule 74(1), the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to examine the subject-matter of all of Bill C-38, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures, introduced in the House of Commons on April 26, 2012, in advance of the said bill coming before the Senate;

That the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to sit for the purposes of its study of the subject-matter of Bill C-38 even though the Senate may then be sitting, with the application of rule 95(4) being suspended in relation thereto; and

That, in addition, and notwithstanding any normal practice, the following committees be separately authorized to examine the subject-matter of the following elements contained in Bill C-38 in advance of it coming before the Senate:

(a) the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources: those elements contained in Part 3;

(b) the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce: those elements contained in Divisions 2, 10, 11, 22, 28, and 36 of Part 4;

(c) the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence: those elements contained in Division 12 of Part 4;

(d) the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications: those elements contained in Division 41 of Part 4; and

(e) the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology: those elements contained in Division 54 of Part 4.

After debate,

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

Gary W. O'Brien

Clerk of the Senate