Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Fisheries

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, November 6, 2002:

The Honourable Senator Comeau moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Beaudoin:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries be authorized to examine and report upon the matters relating to oceans and fisheries;

That the documents and evidence received by the Committee during its consideration of these same matters in the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament be referred to the Committee;

That the Committee table its final report no later than June 30, 2003; and

That, notwithstanding usual practice, the Committee be permitted to deposit its final report with the Clerk of the Senate if the Senate is not then sitting, and that the report be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber.

After debate, with leave of the Senate and pursuant to rule 30 the motion was modified to read as follows:

That the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries be authorized to examine and report from time to time upon the matters relating to straddling stocks and to fish habitat;

That the documents and evidence received by the Committee during its consideration of these same matters in the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament be referred to the Committee; and

That the Committee table its final report no later than December 31, 2003.

After debate, the question being put on the motion, as modified, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate