Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration – December 12, 2019: The committee proceeds to study a number of financial and administrative matters. Independent Senator Lucie Moncion presents a report from the subcommittee on Senate (...)

National Finance – December 9, 2019 – Part 2: Numerous government officials respond to questions about their departmental budgets allocated in the 2020 supplementary estimates. Government officials speaking to the committee are (...)

National Finance – December 9, 2019 – Part 1: Senators question officials from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and other departments to mark the start of the committee’s study on the 2020 supplementary estimates. (...)

Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration – November 7, 2019: Senators discuss whether they should reallocate funding or expend new money to fund the newly formed senators’ group called the Canadian Senators Group (CSG). 11 (...)

Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration – September 5, 2019: Senators discuss a recent incident where a man was allegedly asked by security to leave a tour of the Senate building unless he turned his ‘I Heart Canadian Oil (...)

Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration – June 20, 2019: Senators discuss financial and administrative matters relating to the governance framework for long-term vision and plan projects, witness expenses, and the Senate’s (...)

National Finance – June 19, 2019: Senators begin their pre-study of Bill C-101, legislation aimed at protecting the Canadian market against a potential increase of foreign steel dumping. It would amend the Customs Tariff and the (...)

Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources – June 18, 2019: Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett outlines Bill C-88, legislation to amend the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act and the Canada Petroleum (...)

National Defence – June 17, 2019: Senators hold a meeting into its proposed study of the failed prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. The committee agrees to extend the deadline for the investigation’s report from June 20 to (...)

Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration – June 13, 2019: Senators receive a general overview of the work of Parliamentary Associations during the last fiscal year, as described in the Activities and Expenditures Report 2018-19. (...)

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – June 13, 2019: Senators hear from their last witnesses on Bill C-84, which amends the Criminal Code to crack down on bestiality and animal fighting offences. Monique St. Germain from the (...)

Legal and Constitutional Affairs – June 13, 2019: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Ralph Goodale outlines Bill C-93’s measure to establish an expedited and simplified pardon system for individuals with criminal (...)

Aboriginal Peoples – June 12, 2019 – Part 2: Senators resume their consideration of Bill C-262, legislation to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous (...)

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – June 12, 2019: Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti discusses Bill C-84’s measures to tackle bestiality and animal fighting offences. Representatives of Canada’s (...)

National Finance – June 12, 2019: Senators conduct their clause-by-clause review of the budget implementation bill, C-97.

Aboriginal Peoples – June 12, 2019 – Part 1: Senators continue their clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-91, which aims to protect and promote Indigenous languages, and Bill C-92, legislation to affirm the rights and (...)

Legal and Constitutional Affairs – June 12, 2019: Senators conclude their clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-78, which updates Canada’s divorce and family laws. The committee then considers appending observations to their (...)

National Finance – June 11, 2019: Senators examine Bill C-97’s provisions aimed at changing the Canada Student Loans Act and the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act. Speaking today are Sofia Descalzi (Canadian Federation of (...)

Aboriginal Peoples – June 11, 2019: Senators resume their clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-91, which aims to protect and promote Indigenous languages, and also Bill C-262, legislation to ensure that the laws of Canada are in (...)

National Defence – June 10, 2019: Liberal MP David McGuinty, chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), presents his committee’s first annual report. NSICOP’s mandate is to review the (...)

Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration – June 6, 2019: Diane McCullagh, chief human resources officer for the Senate, provides an update on the Senate Administration’s progress in addressing recommendations made by the (...)

Foreign Affairs – June 6, 2019: Senators conduct a study on the human rights situation in Tibet. Witnesses recount Tibet’s troubled history and human rights violations committed against its citizens, followed by remedial (...)

Legal and Constitutional Affairs – June 6, 2019: Senators continue their study of Bill C-78, which amends the Divorce Act, by examining child and family violence and equal parenting as defined by the United Nations Convention on the (...)

National Finance – June 6, 2019: Senators debate the 2019 budget implementation bill’s measure that would obligate federal government employees to reimburse salary overpayments under the Phoenix pay system.

Aboriginal Peoples – June 5, 2019: Eight Indigenous youth leaders from across the country appear as witnesses in the fourth annual Youth Indigenize the Senate event. Trevor Dubois, Megan Hébert-Lefebvre, Karlee Johnson, Jukipa (...)

Legal and Constitutional Affairs – June 5, 2019 – Part 2: Senators resume their study of Bill C 78, which updates Canada’s family laws. Representatives from the Department of Justice Canada and other legal experts give (...)

Legal and Constitutional Affairs – June 5, 2019 – Part 1: Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti outlines Bill C-78, which updates Canada’s divorce and family laws. If passed, it will be the first (...)

National Finance – June 5, 2019: Finance Minister Bill Morneau faces questions on measures of the 2019 budget implementation bill (C-97) including a middle-class tax cut, lowering the small-business tax rate, waiving of interest (...)

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – June 5, 2019: Senators resume their study of measures in Bill C-97, the 2019 budget implementation legislation, including the first-time homebuyer incentive program, the National Housing (...)

National Finance – June 4, 2019 – Part 1: Senators examine Bill C-97’s provisions aimed at encouraging business investments in Canada. Witnesses call for a comprehensive review of the Canadian tax system and a plan to address (...)