Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology

Issue No. 35 - Orders of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, of Tuesday, November 28, 2017:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Day, seconded by the Honourable Senator Mercer, for the second reading of Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Remembrance Day).

After debate,

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

The bill was then read the second time.

The Honourable Senator Day moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Eggleton, P.C., that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.

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

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, December 14, 2017:

With leave of the Senate,

The Honourable Senator Eggleton, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fraser:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, in accordance with rule 12- 7(9), be authorized to examine and report on such issues as may arise from time to time relating to social affairs, science and technology generally, including:

(a) cultural affairs and the arts, social and labour matters, health and welfare, pensions, housing, fitness and amateur sport, employment and immigration, consumer affairs, and youth affairs;

(b) elements related to its mandate or to previous reports of the committee that are found in the ministerial mandates of the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, the Minister of Health, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, the Minister of Science, and the Minister of Sports and Persons with Disabilities; and

That the committee report to the Senate no later than December 30, 2018.

After debate,

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

Nicole Proulx
Clerk of the Senate