THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

ORDER OF REFERENCE

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Tuesday, June 13, 2023:

With leave of the Senate,

The Honourable Senator Wells moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Seidman:

That, notwithstanding any provision of the Rules, previous order or usual practice, if Bill C‑234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, is adopted at second reading:

1. it stand referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry;
2. the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to examine and report on the subject matter of the bill; and
3. the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry be authorized to take into account, during its consideration of the bill, any public documents and public evidence received by the committee authorized to study the subject matter of the bill, as well as any report from that committee to the Senate on the subject matter of the bill.

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

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Wells, seconded by the Honourable Senator Batters, for the second reading of Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act.

After debate,

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

The bill was then read the second time.

(Pursuant to the order adopted earlier this day, the bill was deemed referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance is authorized to examine and report on the subject matter of the bill.)

Interim Clerk of the Senate

Gérald Lafrenière