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ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS — Human Rights

Notice of Motion to Authorize Committee to Meet During Adjournment of the Senate and Deposit Reports on Studies of Issues Relating to the Human Rights of Prisoners in the Correctional System and International and National Human Rights Obligations with Clerk During Adjournment of the Senate

June 12, 2019


Hon. Wanda Elaine Thomas Bernard

Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move:

That, pursuant to rule 12-18(2)(b)(i), the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights be authorized to meet between July 29 and August 9, 2019, inclusive, even though the Senate may then be adjourned for a period exceeding one week; and

That the committee also be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit with the Clerk of the Senate before September 3, 2019, the following reports if the Senate is not then sitting, with the reports being deemed to have been tabled in the Senate:

(a) final report relating to the human rights of federally-sentenced persons;

(b) interim report on issues relating to human rights and the machinery of government dealing with Canada’s international and national human rights obligations (forced and coerced sterilization of persons in Canada); and

(c) interim report on issues relating to human rights and the machinery of government dealing with Canada’s international and national human rights obligations (Passenger Protect Program).

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