Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on
Senate Modernization
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable THOMAS J. MCINNIS
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Issue No. 11
Twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth meetings:
Consideration of methods to make the Senate more effective within the current constitutional framework
WITNESSES
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
House of Lords:
The Right Honourable The Lord Wakeham DL (by video conference);
The Lord Norton of Louth (by video conference).
As an individual:
Meg Russell, Director, Constitution Unit, Department of Political Science, University College London (by video conference).
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
As individuals:
Adam Dodek, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa;
John Whyte, Senior Policy Fellow, Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Thomas J. McInnis, Chair
The Honourable Serge Joyal, P.C., Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Bellemare, Dean, Dupuis, Eggleton, P.C., Forest, Frum, Gagné, Gold, Greene, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), Massicotte, McCoy, McIntyre, *Smith (or Martin), Stewart Olsen, Tardif, Tkachuk, Wells
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 5)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of December 7, 2016, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Gold replaced the Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C. (May 1, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Gold (March 30, 2017).