THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL FINANCE
ORDER OF REFERENCE
Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Tuesday, June 16, 2020:
With leave of the Senate,
The Honourable Senator Gagné moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Gold, P.C.:
That, notwithstanding any provision of the Rules or usual practice, the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance:
be authorized to examine and report upon the expenditures set out in Supplementary Estimates (A), 2020-21, tabled in the Senate on June 16, 2020;
be authorized, in light of the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, to meet by videoconference or teleconference, if technically feasible, for the purposes of its studies of estimates as authorized by paragraph 1 or as already authorized by the Senate, subject to the provisions of the order of April 11, 2020, respecting its study of certain issues relating to legislation and government actions in response to the pandemic;
have the power to meet for the purposes of its studies of estimates as authorized by paragraph 1 or as already authorized by the Senate, even though the Senate may then be sitting, and that rule 12-18(1) be suspended in relation thereto; and
be permitted to deposit electronically with the Clerk of the Senate any reports on studies of estimates as authorized by paragraph 1 or as already authorized by the Senate, if the Senate is not then sitting, with the reports then being deemed to have been tabled or presented in the Senate.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Interim Clerk of the Senate
Richard Denis