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

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18-19

Chair: The Honourable CHANTAL PETITCLERC

Monday, June 3, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Thursday, June 6, 2019 (in camera)

Issue No. 62

Third, fourth and fifth (final) meetings:
The subject matter of those elements contained in Divisions 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20 of Part 4, and in Subdivisions C, K and L of Division 9 of Part 4 of Bill C-97, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 19, 2019 and other measures

INCLUDING:
THE THIRTY-SIXTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(The subject matter of those elements contained in Divisions 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20 of Part 4, and in Subdivisions C, K and L of Division 9 of Part 4 of Bill C-97, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 19, 2019 and other measures)

WITNESSES

Monday, June 3, 2019

Employment and Social Development Canada:

Heather Sheehy, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic and Service Policy Branch;

Hugues Vaillancourt, Senior Director, Social Development Policy Division, Social Policy Directorate, Strategic and Service Policy Branch.

Colour of Poverty — Colour of Change:

Avvy Yao-Yao Go, Clinic Director, Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (by video conference).

Canada Without Poverty:

Michèle Biss, Policy Director and Human Rights Lawyer (by video conference).

Citizens for Public Justice:

Darlene O'Leary, Socio-economic Policy Analyst.

Vanier Institute of the Family:

Nora Spinks, President and CEO.

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation:

Michel Tremblay, Senior Vice President, Policy and Innovation;

Mark Young, Director, Legal services.

Department of Finance Canada:

Robert Sample, Senior Director, Market Policy, Capital Markets Division;

David LeDrew, Senior Advisor, Capital Markets Division.

Canadian Real Estate Association:

Jason Stephen, President.

Maytree Foundation:

Garima Talwar Kapoor, Director, Policy and Research.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Chantal Petitclerc, Chair

The Honourable Judith G. Seidman, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Dasko, *Day (or Mercer), Deacon (Ontario), Eaton, Forest-Niesing, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), (or Mitchell), Kutcher, Manning, Mégie, Munson, Oh, Poirier, Ravalia, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)

* Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the orders of the Senate of November 7, 2017 and of November 20, 2018, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Deacon (Ontario) replaced the Honourable Senator Griffin (June 6, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Eaton replaced the Honourable Senator Housakos (June 4, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Griffin replaced the Honourable Senator Deacon (Ontario) (June 4, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Kutcher replaced the Honourable Senator Omidvar (June 4, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Deacon (Ontario) replaced the Honourable Senator Kutcher (June 4, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Dasko replaced the Honourable Senator Moodie (June 4, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Moodie replaced the Honourable Senator Dasko (June 3, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Eaton (June 3, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Housakos replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (June 3, 2019).

The Honourable Senator Kutcher replaced the Honourable Senator Deacon (Ontario) (June 3, 2019).

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