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Date: 1988-06-02
By: Canada (Parliament)
Citation: Canada, Senate Debates, 33rd Parl, 2nd Sess, 1988 at 3578.
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3578

[English]

EMERGENCIES BILL

CONSIDERATION IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE CONTINUED

Leave having been given to revert to Order No. 3:

The Senate again in Committee of the Whole on the Bill C-77, An Act to authorize the taking of special temporary measures to ensure safety and security during national emergencies and to amend other Acts in consequence thereof.

The Senate was accordingly adjourned during pleasure and put into a Committee of the Whole on the Bill C-77, to authorize the taking of special temporary measures to ensure safety and security during national emergencies and to amend other Acts in consequence thereof, the Honourable Gildas L. Molgat in the Chair.

Senator Phillips: Honourable senators, I move, seconded by Senator Petten,

That the following Senators be appointed to serve on the Steering Committee of the Committee of the Whole on the Bill C-77, An Act to authorize the taking of special temporary measures to ensure safety and security during national emergencies and to amend other Acts in consequence thereof, namely, the Honourable Senators Asselin, Cochrane, Frith, Hébert, Kelly, Marsden, Molgat and Stewart (Antigonish-Guysborough).

The Chairman: Is it agreed, honourable senators?

Hon. Senators: Agreed.

The Chairman: Although there is no chairman at the moment for the steering committee, would it be agreeable, honourable senators, that the committee meet when the Senate rises on Tuesday next, or at our next sitting?

Hon. Senators: Agreed.

Senator Doody: Mr. Chairman, I move that the committee adjourn, report progress, and ask for leave to sit again.

The Chairman: Is it agreed, honourable senators?

Hon. Senators: Agreed.

The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Honourable senators, the sitting of the Senate is resumed.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

Hon. Gildas L. Molgat: Honourable senators, the Committee of the Whole, to which was referred the Bill C-77, to authorize the taking of special temporary measures to ensure safety and security during national emergencies and to amend other Acts in consequence thereof, reports progress and asks for leave to sit again.

The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore. Is leave granted, honourable senators?

Hon. Senators: Agreed.

The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Honourable senators, when shall this committee have leave to sit again?

Hon. C. William Doody (Deputy Leader of the Government) moved that the Committee of the Whole be given authority to sit again at the next sitting of the Senate.

Motion agreed to.