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Human Rights

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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18-19

Chair: The Honourable WANDA ELAINE THOMAS BERNARD

Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Issue No. 42

Thirteenth and fourteenth meetings:
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

WITNESSES

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

DisAbled Women's Network of Canada:

Bonnie Brayton, National Executive Director.

Egale:

Morgan Holmes, Representative.

Contentworks Inc.:

Julie Harris, President and Principal.

As an individual:

Josephine Etowa, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa.

Department of Indigenous Services Canada:

Dr. Tom Wong, Chief Medical Officer of Public Health and Executive Director.

Health Canada:

Abby Hoffman, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada:

Daniel Therrien, Privacy Commissioner of Canada;

Lacey Batalov, Acting Director, Government Advisory Directorate.

WestJet:

Jared Mikoch-Gerke, Advisor, Aviation Security.

As individuals:

Rayyan Syed Kamal, 4th Year Medical Science Student, Western University.

Uzma Jamil, Fellow, Muslim Studies for the InterReligious Institute, Chicago Theological Seminary.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Wanda Elaine Thomas Bernard, Chair

The Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Deputy Chair

The Honourable Jane Cordy, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Boyer, Brazeau, *Day (or Mercer), *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Hartling, Ngo, Pate, *Smith (or Martin), Wells, *Woo (or Saint-Germain)

* Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the orders of the Senate of November 7, 2017 and of November 20, 2018, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Hartling replaced the Honourable Senator Cormier (May 16, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Cormier replaced the Honourable Senator Hartling (May 14, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Brazeau replaced the Honourable Senator McCallum (May 9, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Boyer replaced the Honourable Senator Cormier (May 9, 2019).

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