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Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament

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Proceedings of the Standing Committee on
Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament

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

Chair: The Honourable LEO HOUSAKOS

Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 (in camera)

Issue No. 17

Seventeenth and eighteenth meetings:
Pursuant to rule 12-7(2)(c), consideration of the orders and practices of the Senate and the privileges of Parliament

First and second meetings:
Develop and propose a mission and purpose statement for the Senate; and review the totality of its procedural rules as embodied in the Rules of the Senate and revise them so that they incorporate the multiple roles of the modern Senate

WITNESSES

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

As an individual:

Dave Levac, Former Speaker, Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

As individuals:

The Honourable Stephen Greene, Senator;

The Honourable Paul J. Massicotte, Senator.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Leo Housakos, Chair

The Honourable Serge Joyal, P.C., Deputy Chair

The Honourable Murray Sinclair, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Batters, Cordy, Dalphond, *Day (or Mercer), Dupuis, Frum, Greene, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), McCoy, Mercer, Mitchell, Ringuette, Saint-Germain, Seidman, *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 Frum replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (May 1, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Frum (April 29, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Frum replaced the Honourable Senator Oh (March 20, 2019).

The Honourable Senator McCoy replaced the Honourable Senator Saint-Germain (March 19, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Saint-Germain replaced the Honourable Senator McCoy (March 18, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Oh replaced the Honourable Senator Frum (March 15, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Ringuette replaced the Honourable Senator Gold (December 5, 2018).

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