Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

Issue 13 - Ninth Report of the Committee

Thursday, November 20, 2014

The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights has the honour to present its

NINTH REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill S-219, An Act respecting a national day of commemoration of the exodus of Vietnamese refugees and their acceptance in Canada after the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War, has, in obedience to the order of reference of October 29, 2014, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendments:

Preamble, page 1: Replace lines 12 and 13 with the following:

''War and the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Government;''.

Preamble, page 2: Replace line 19 with the following:

''as ''Black April Day'', or alternatively as ''Journey to Freedom Day'', and is, therefore, an''.

Clause 1, page 2: Replace line 33 with the following:

''1. This Act may be cited as the Journey to Freedom''.

Clause 2, page 2: Replace line 37 with the following:

'"'Journey to Freedom Day''.''.

Clause 2, page 2: Replace line 38 with the following:

''3. For greater certainty, Journey to Freedom Day is''.

Respectfully submitted,

SALMA ATAULLAHJAN

Deputy Chair