Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on
Senate Modernization

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18

Chair: The Honourable STEPHEN GREENE

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 (in camera)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Issue No. 17

Thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first meetings:
Consideration of methods to make the Senate more effective within the current constitutional framework

INCLUDING:
THE TWELFTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Senate Modernization: Moving Forward - Part II)

• Minutes of Proceedings - March 21, 2018
• Minutes of Proceedings - April 18, 2018 (in camera)
• Minutes of Proceedings - April 25, 2018
• Minutes of Proceedings - May 9, 2018
• Twelfth Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - March 21, 2018
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - April 25, 2018
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - May 9, 2018

WITNESSES

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

The Honourable Senator Yuen Pau Woo, Facilitator, Independent Senators Group.

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

The Honourable Senator Diane Bellemare (Legislative Deputy to the Government Representative in the Senate).

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), Eggleton, P.C., Frum, Gold, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), (or Mitchell), Lankin, P.C., Maltais, Massicotte, McCoy, Mockler, *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 Gold replaced the Honourable Senator Dean (May 9, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Dean replaced the Honourable Senator Deacon (April 25, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Deacon replaced the Honourable Senator Dean (April 24, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Stewart Olsen replaced the Honourable Senator Eaton (April 23, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Eaton replaced the Honourable Senator Stewart Olsen (April 20, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Deacon (April 19, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Dean replaced the Honourable Senator Black (Ontario) (April 19, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Wells replaced the Honourable Senator Tkachuk (April 18, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Tkachuk replaced the Honourable Senator Wells (April 18, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Black (Ontario) replaced the Honourable Senator Dean (April 17, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Deacon replaced the Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C. (April 16, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Massicotte replaced the Honourable Senator Pratte (March 22, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Maltais replaced the Honourable Senator Tkachuk (March 21, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Pratte replaced the Honourable Senator Massicotte (March 20, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Tkachuk replaced the Honourable Senator Maltais (March 16, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Maltais replaced the Honourable Senator Neufeld (February 28, 2018).

The Honourable Senator Verner, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Gold (February 28, 2018).