THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

ORDER OF REFERENCE

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, September 25, 2025:

The Honourable Senator Senior moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Arnot:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights be authorized to examine and report on aging out of foster care;

That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights during the First Session of the Forty-fourth Parliament as part of its study of such issues as may arise from time to time related to human rights generally be referred to the committee;

That the committee be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit its reports on this study with the Clerk of the Senate if the Senate is not then sitting, and that the reports be deemed to have been tabled in the Senate; and

That the committee submit its final report to the Senate no later than December 31, 2026, 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.

Shaila Anwar

Clerk of the Senate