THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS

ORDER OF REFERENCE

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, February 10, 2022:

With leave of the Senate,

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

That the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications be authorized to examine and report on the impacts of climate change on critical infrastructure in the transportation and communications sectors and the consequential impacts on their interdependencies, and measures needed to increase resiliency to those impacts;

That the committee also examine the impacts of critical infrastructure in the transportation and communications sectors on climate change, and measures to reduce those impacts; and

That the committee submit its final report no later than November 30, 2023, and that the committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings for 180 days after the tabling of the final report.

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

Interim Clerk of the Senate

Gérald Lafrenière

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, November 30, 2023:

The Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne moved, for the Honourable Senator Housakos, seconded by the Honourable Senator Boehm:

That, notwithstanding the order of the Senate adopted on Thursday, February 10, 2022, the date for the final report of the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications in relation to its study on the impacts of climate change on critical infrastructure in the transportation and communications sectors and the consequential impacts on their interdependencies be extended from November 30, 2023, to November 30, 2024.

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

Interim Clerk of the Senate

Gérald Lafrenière