Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry

Issue No. 20 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, November 24, 2016:

With leave of the Senate,

The Honourable Senator Maltais moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Dagenais:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry be authorized to examine and report on the current situation involving the bovine tuberculosis outbreak in southeastern Alberta, the quarantine that farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan are under, and the movement controls in place for cattle. The study will focus on:

(a) factors explaining the outbreak of the disease;

(b) measures taken by the federal government and the relevant authorities to control the spread of the disease and to eradicate it from the Canadian cattle population; and

(c) possible effects on the Canadian cattle sector.

That, for the purposes of this study, the committee have the power to meet, even though the Senate may then be sitting on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m, and that rule 12-18(1) be suspended in relation thereto;

That, pursuant to rule 12-18(2)(b)(i), the committee be authorized to sit from Monday, January 2, 2017 to Monday, January 30, 2017, inclusive, even though the Senate may then be adjourned for a period exceeding one week; and

That the committee submit its final report to the Senate no later than February 28, 2017, and that the committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings until 180 days after the tabling of the final report.

After debate,

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

ATTEST:

Charles Robert

Clerk of the Senate