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ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS — Official Languages

Notice of Motion to Authorize Committee to Study the Government's Decision to Award a Contract for a Student Grant Program to WE Charity

September 30, 2020


Hon. Donald Neil Plett (Leader of the Opposition)

Honourable senators, on behalf of the Honourable Senator Housakos, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, he will move:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages be authorized to examine and report on the Government of Canada’s decision to award a contract for a student grant program to WE Charity, a third party without the capacity to do so in both official languages, in apparent contravention of Canada’s Official Languages Act, when and if the committee is formed; and

That the committee submit its final report no later than February 28, 2021.

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