Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Aging

First Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2006

Chair: The Honourable SHARON CARSTAIRS, P.C.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006

Issue No. 1

Organizational meeting
and
First meeting on:

Special study on aging

INCLUDING:
THE FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special Study Budget)

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings
• First Report
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, November 20, 2006 (14K)
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings, November 27, 2006 (125K)

WITNESSES:

Monday, November 27, 2006

Statistics Canada:

Pamela White, Director, Demography Division;

Laurent Martel, Analyst, Research and Analysis Section, Demography Division.

As an individual:

Byron Spencer, Professor, Economics, McMaster University.

National Aboriginal Health Organization:

Carole Lafontaine, Acting Chief Executive Officer;

Mark Buell, Manager, Policy/Communications Unit.

National Advisory Council on Aging:

Robert Dobie, Acting Chair;

Margaret Gillis, Director, Division of Aging and Seniors, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Public Health Agency of Canada.

As an individual:

Douglas Durst, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Sharon Carstairs, P.C., Chair

The Honourable Wilbert J. Keon, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Chaput, Cordy, Johnson, *Hays (or Fraser), *LeBreton, P.C. (or Comeau), Mercer, Murray, P.C.

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 3)