Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable JIM MUNSON
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Issue No. 21
Fifteenth and sixteenth meetings:
Study on the issues relating to the human rights of prisoners in the correctional system
INCLUDING:
THE EIGHTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special study budget application for public hearings and fact-finding in Kitchener, Edmonton, and Eastern Canada, part of the committee's study on issues pertaining to human rights of prisoners, for the year ending March 31, 2018)
WITNESSES
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
As individuals:
Nancy Wrenshall (by video conference);
Mary E. Campbell, Sentencing and Corrections Expert (Former Director General, Corrections and Conditional Release, Public Safety Canada);
Janet-Sue Hamilton, Retired, Warden, Edmonton Institution for Women;
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Vice-President Human Resources & Equity and Professor of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto (by video conference).
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Audmax Inc.:
Maxcine Telfer, Director General;
Aundre Green-Telfer, Managing Director, Ethnocultural Programs and Services.
Urban Rez Solutions:
Farley Flex, Director, Founder;
Roderick Brereton, Director, Founder.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Jim Munson, Chair
The Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Andreychuk, Bernard, Eaton, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), Hartling, Martin, McPhedran, Ngo, Omidvar, Pate, *Smith (or Martin)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of December 7, 2016, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Eaton replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (October 10, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Eaton (October 3, 2017).