THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL AFFAIRS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ORDER OF REFERENCE
Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Tuesday, December 1, 2020:
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Housakos, seconded by the Honourable Senator Martin:
That the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology be authorized to examine and report on the implementation and success of a federal framework on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by the Government of Canada as it relates to the four identified priority areas with a focus on data collection, that is, improved tracking of the rate of PTSD amongst first responders and its associated economic and social costs, when and if the committee is formed; and
That the committee submit its final report no later than February 28, 2021.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted on the following vote:
YEAS
The Honourable Senators
Ataullahjan, Batters, Bellemare, Beyak, Boniface, Brazeau, Busson, Campbell, Carignan, Cotter, Dalphond, Dawson, Frum, Gagné, Gold, Greene, Griffin, Harder, Housakos, Jaffer, Klyne, Kutcher, LaBoucane-Benson, Lankin, Loffreda, MacDonald, Manning, Marshall, Martin, Massicotte, McPhedran, Mercer, Mockler, Munson, Ngo, Oh, Patterson, Plett, Poirier, Ravalia, Richards, Seidman, Smith, Stewart Olsen, Wells, Wetston—46
NAYS
The Honourable Senators
Anderson, Bernard, Black (Alberta), Black (Ontario), Boehm, Bovey, Dagenais, Dasko, Dean, Downe, Duffy, Duncan, Dupuis, Forest, Hartling, McCallum, Omidvar, Simons, Tannas, Woo—20
ABSTENTIONS
The Honourable Senators
Cordy, Cormier, Coyle, Deacon (Nova Scotia), Deacon (Ontario), Forest-Niesing, Francis, Galvez, Marwah, Mégie, Miville-Dechêne, Moncion, Moodie, Pate, Ringuette, Saint-Germain—16
Richard Denis
Interim Clerk of the Senate