Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

Issue No. 16 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, of Tuesday, March 28, 2017:

The Honourable Senator Munson moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Jaffer:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights be authorized to examine and monitor issues relating to human rights and, inter alia, to review the machinery of government dealing with Canada's international and national human rights obligations;

That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the committee on this subject since the beginning of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament be referred to the committee; and

That the committee submit its final report to the Senate no later than March 31, 2018.

After debate,

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

Charles Robert

Clerk of the Senate