Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue No. 65 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Tuesday, June 11, 2019:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Dean, seconded by the Honourable Senator Bellemare, for the second reading of Bill C-93, An Act to provide no-cost, expedited record suspensions for simple possession of cannabis.

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted on the following vote:

YEAS

The Honourable Senators

Anderson, Bellemare, Bernard, Black (Ontario), Boehm, Boniface, Bovey, Busson, Cormier, Coyle, Dalphond, Dawson, Deacon Nova Scotia), Deacon (Ontario), Dean, Duncan, Dupuis, Dyck, Forest, Francis, Gagné, Gold, Griffin, Harder, Hartling, Joyal, Klyne, Kutcher, LaBoucane-Benson, Lankin, Lovelace Nicholas, Marwah, McCallum, McPhedran, Mégie, Mercer, Mitchell, Miville-Dechêne, Moncion, Omidvar, Petitclerc, Pratte, Ravalia, Richards, Ringuette, Saint-Germain, Simons, Sinclair, Woo—49

NAYS

The Honourable Senators

Andreychuk, Batters, Boisvenu, Carignan, Dagenais, Doyle, Eaton, Housakos, MacDonald, Manning, Marshall, Martin, McInnis, McIntyre, Mockler, Neufeld, Ngo, Oh, Patterson, Plett, Poirier, Seidman, Smith, Tannas, Tkachuk, Wells—26

ABSTENTION

The Honourable Senator

Stewart Olsen—1

Accordingly, Bill C-93 was read a second time.

The Honourable Senator Dean moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Petitclerc, that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

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

Richard Denis

Interim Clerk of the Senate