Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on
Senate Modernization
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable STEPHEN GREENE
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Issue No. 15
First meeting:
Election of the chair
Thirty-fifth meeting:
Consideration of methods to make the Senate more effective within the current constitutional framework
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Stephen Greene, Chair
The Honourable Serge Joyal, P.C., Deputy Chair
The Honourable Thomas J. McInnis, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
*Day (or Mercer), Dean, Eggleton, P.C., Fraser, Frum, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Lankin, P.C., Maltais, Massicotte, McCoy, Poirier, *Smith (or Martin), Stewart Olsen, Verner, P.C., Wells, *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 5)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to Rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Poirier was added to the membership (December 6, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Oh was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (December 6, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Ngo was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (December 4, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Maltais was added to the membership (December 4, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Wells was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Oh was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Stewart Olsen was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Ngo was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Frum was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator McInnis was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Verner, P.C., was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Fraser was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator McCoy was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Dean was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Massicotte was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Eggleton, P.C., was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Greene was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C., was added to the membership (November 20, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Eggleton, P.C., was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C., was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Massicotte was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator McInnis was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Wells was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Tardif was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Stewart Olsen was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator McCoy was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Bellemare was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Frum was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Forest was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Gagné was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator McIntyre was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Dupuis was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Tkachuk was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Dean was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (November 19, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Dean replaced the Honourable Senator Greene (October 26, 2017).