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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Privileges, Standing Rules and Orders

Issue 9 - Seventh Report of the Committee

WEDNESDAY, December 9, 1998

The Standing Committee on Privileges, Standing Rules and Orders has the honour to present its

SEVENTH REPORT

Your Committee recommends that the following rule be added to the Rules of the Senate:

"1.(3) In the French version, the masculine gender is used throughout, without any intent to discriminate but solely to make the text easier to read. The distinction in French should not be between "masculine" and "feminine" genders but between "marked" and "unmarked" genders; the so-called masculine gender is an unmarked gender and can therefore represent, by itself, elements of both genders. The feminine gender is marked and therefore cannot be used to refer to elements of both genders."

Respectfully submitted,

SHIRLEY MAHEU

Chair