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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology

Second Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2013-14

Chair: The Honourable KELVIN KENNETH OGILVIE

Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 (in camera)
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Issue No. 24

Third and fourth (final) meetings:
Subject matter of those elements contained in Divisions 5, 7, 17, 20, and 24 of Part 4 of Bill C-43, A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures

and

First and second (final) meetings:
Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease

INCLUDING:
THE SIXTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Subject matter of Divisions 5, 7, 17, 20,  and 24 of Part 4 of Bill C-43)
THE SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill C-442)

WITNESSES

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Citizenship and Immigration Canada:

Robert Judge, Director, Temporary Resident Policy and Program.

Employment and Social Development Canada:

Alexis Conrad, Director General, Temporary Foreign Workers Program, Skills and Employment Branch;

Colin Spencer James, Director, Policy and Program Design, Temporary Foreign Workers Program, Skills and Employment Branch.

Canadian Bar Association:

Gordon Maynard, Past Chair, National Immigration Law Section.

Restaurants Canada:

Joyce Reynolds, Executive Vice-President, Government Affairs.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands, sponsor of the bill.

Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation:

Jim Wilson, President and Founder.

Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada:

Dr. Daniel Gregson, President;

Dr. William Bowie, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Canadian Institutes of Health Research:

Dr. Marc Ouellette, Scientific Director, Institute of Infection and Immunity (by video conference).

Public Health Agency of Canada:

Steven Sternthal, Director General, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases;

Robbin Lindsay, Head, Field Studies, Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens Division, National Microbiology Laboratory.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie, Chair

The Honourable Art Eggleton, P.C., Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

*Carignan, P.C. (or Martin), Chaput, Cordy, *Cowan (or Fraser), Enverga, Merchant, Nancy Ruth, Seidman, Seth, Stewart Olsen, Wallace

* Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Stewart Olsen replaced the Honourable Senator Beyak (November 20, 2014).

The Honourable Senator Beyak replaced the Honourable Senator Stewart Olsen (November 19, 2014).

The Honourable Senator Wallace was added to the membership (November 10, 2014).

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