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

Issue No. 39 - Orders of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, March 22, 2018:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Dean, seconded by the Honourable Senator Forest, for the second reading of Bill C-45, An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts.

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted on the following vote:

YEAS

The Honourable Senators

Bellemare, Bernard, Black (Alberta), Black (Centre Wellington), Boniface, Bovey, Boyer, Brazeau, Campbell, Cools, Cormier, Coyle, Deacon, Dean, Dupuis, Eggleton, Furey, Gagné, Galvez, Gold, Greene, Harder, Hartling, Jaffer, Joyal, Lankin, Marwah, McCoy, McPhedran, Mégie, Mitchell, Moncion, Munson, Omidvar, Pate, Petitclerc, Pratte, Richards, Ringuette, Saint-Germain, Sinclair,Verner, Wetston and Woo—44

NAYS

The Honourable Senators

Andreychuk, Batters, Beyak, Boisvenu, Carignan, Dagenais, Duffy, Eaton, Housakos, MacDonald, Manning, Marshall, Martin, McInnis, McIntyre, Mockler, Neufeld, Ngo, Oh, Plett, Poirier, Raine, Seidman, Smith, Stewart Olsen, Tkachuk, Unger, Wells and White—29

ABSTENTIONS

The Honourable Senators

Nil

Accordingly, Bill C-45 was read a second time.

Pursuant to the order adopted on February 15, 2018, the bill was referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.

ATTEST:

Richard Denis
Interim Clerk of the Senate