Proceedings of the Standing Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Wednesday, February 28, 1996:

With leave of the Senate and notwithstanding rule 58(1)(f),

The Honourable Senator Stewart moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Andreychuk:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs be authorized to examine and report on the consequences of the economic integration of the European Union for the national governance of the member states, and on the consequences of the emergence of the European Union for economic, political and defence relations between Canada and Europe;

That the Committee have the power to engage the services of such counsel and technical, clerical and other personnel as may be necessary for the purpose of its examination and consideration of the said order of reference;

That the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject during the First Session of the Thirty-fifth Parliament be referred to the Committee;

That the Committee have power to adjourn from place to place outside Canada;

That the Committee submit its final report no later than June 30, 1996; and

That, notwithstanding usual practices, if the Senate is not sitting when the final report of the Committee is completed, the Committee shall deposit its report with the Clerk of the Senate, and said report shall thereupon be deemed to have been tabled in this chamber.

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate