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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

First Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2001

Chair: The Honourable A. RAYNELL ANDREYCHUK
Monday, October 29, 2001
Monday, November 5, 2001

Issue No. 4

Fifth and sixth meetings on: Issues relating to human rights and inter alia, the machinery of government dealing with Canada's international and national human rights obligations

WITNESSES:

Monday, October 29, 2001:

From the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway:

William A. Schabas, Director.

From the Canadian Human Rights Foundation:

Ruth Selwyn, Executive Director;

François Crépeau, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal;

El Obaid Ahmed El Obaid, Faculty of Law, McGill University.

From the Ontario Human Rights Commission:

Keith Norton, Chief Commissioner.

Monday, November 5, 2001:

As Individuals:

Professor Errol P. Mendes, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa;

Philippe LeBlanc, Permanent Delegate of the Dominican Order at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable A. Raynell Andreychuk, Chair

The Honourable Sheila Finestone, P.C., Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Beaudoin, *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Cochrane, Finnerty, Kinsella, Losier-Cool,*Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Phalen, Taylor, Wilson.

* Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Watt was removed (October 25, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Joyal was added (October 28, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Jaffer substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Ferretti Barth (October 28, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Taylor substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Joyal (November 1, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Ferretti Barth substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Jaffer (November 2, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Ferretti Barth (November 5, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Phalen substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Finestone, P.C. (November 5, 2001).

The name of the Honourable Senator Finnerty substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Poy (November 5, 2001).

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