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02:03:18

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – May 6, 2026

CPAC broadcasts all televised committee meetings from Parliament's upper house, the Senate, as senators meet on various committees to examine legislation through discussions, presentations, expert panels and more.

01:09:00

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – April 30, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - April 30, 2026 Examine and report on matters related to the impact of artificial intelligence in Canada Witnesses Alexandra Dassa, Senior Vice President, Technical Success and Value Engineering (Coveo) John Menezes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bell Cyber Inc. (Bell Canada) Michel Richer, President, Bell AI (Bell Canada) Bill S-5, Connected Care for Canadians Act Clause-by-clause consideration Consideration of a draft report Consideration of a draft agenda (future business) Source: sencanada.ca

01:08:04

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – April 29, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - April 29, 2026 Bill S-5, Connected Care for Canadians Act Clause-by-clause consideration Witnesses Brett Taylor, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Care Strategies, Health Policy Branch (Health Canada) Elizabeth Toller, Director General, Health Care Strategies Directorate, Health Policy Branch (Health Canada) Source: sencanada.ca

01:47:42

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - April 23, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - April 23, 2026 Bill S-5, Connected Care for Canadians Act Witnesses Dr. Zainab Abdurrahman, President (Ontario Medical Association) Philip Boyer, Program Manager, Health Data Innovation (INOVAIT) Mike Checkley, President (QHR Technologies) Robert Fox, Chief Executive Officer, OntarioMD (Ontario Medical Association) Keith Jansa, Chief Executive Officer (Digital Governance Council) Alexis McGill, Assistant Professor and Research Chair in Health Innovation, Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of New Brunswick (As an Individual) Dr. Ivar Mendez, Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Virtual Health Hub, University of Saskatchewan (As an Individual) Anne Snowdon, Professor, University of Windsor, and Chief Executive Officer, Supply Chain Advancement Network in Health (As an Individual) Source: sencanada.ca

01:48:25

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – April 22, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - April 22, 2026 Bill S-5, Connected Care for Canadians Act Appearing The Honourable Marjorie Michel, P.C., M.P., Minister of Health (Health Canada) Witnesses Runa Angus, Senior Director, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) Bradley Callaghan, Associate Deputy Commissioner, Policy, Planning and Advocacy Directorate (Competition Bureau Canada) Marc Chénier, Deputy Commissioner and Senior General Counsel (Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada) Major-General Scott Malcolm, Surgeon General (Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces) Elizabeth Toller, Director General, Health Care Strategies Directorate, Health Policy Branch (Health Canada) Source: sencanada.ca

01:56:14

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – April 16, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - April 16, 2026 Bill S-5, Connected Care for Canadians Act Witnesses Anderson Chuck, President and Chief Executive Officer (Canadian Institute for Health Information) Abhi Kalra, Executive Vice-President, Connected Care (Canada Health Infoway) Tracy MacDonald, Chief Information Officer, Department of Health (Government of Nunavut) Dana MacKenzie, Executive Deputy Minister, Department of Health and Wellness (Government of Nova Scotia) Scott McKenna, Chief Information Officer, Nova Scotia Health (Government of Nova Scotia) Tatenda Okoi, Director of eHealth (First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba) David Shipley, Chief Executive Officer (Beauceron Security Inc.) Leona Star, Director of Research (First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba) Source: sencanada.ca

02:03:42

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – April 15, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - April 15, 2026 Bill S-5, Connected Care for Canadians Act Witnesses Dr. Joel Brown, Vice-President and Family Physician (Black Physicians' Association of Ontario) Dr. Margot Burnell, President (Canadian Medical Association) Dr. Sarah Giles, President-Elect (Society of Rural Physicians of Canada) Tory Hibbitt, Member, National Health Law Section (Canadian Bar Association) Danika Kelly, Vice-Chair, Canada West (Women's Health Coalition of Canada) Sarah Pennisi, Senior Advisor, Policy and Public Affairs (Canadian Association of Social Workers) Anthony Quinn, President (Canadian Association of Retired Persons) Dr. Tracie Risling RN, President-Elect (Canadian Nurses Association) Source: sencanada.ca

00:56:42

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – March 26, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - March 26, 2026 Bill S-215, An Act respecting National Immigration Month Consideration of a draft agenda (future business) Witnesses Marie-Laure Konan, Executive Director (INICI (Immigrate, Innovate, Integrate)) Henriette Mvondo, Founder President (Bienvenue à l'immigrant) Thi Be Nguyen, President (UniAction) Thanh Phan, Board Member (Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association) Source: sencanada.ca

01:55:39

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – March 25, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - March 25, 2026 Examine and report on matters related to the impact of artificial intelligence in Canada Witnesses Gideon Christian, Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Law, University of Calgary (As an Individual) Glenda Crisp, President and Chief Executive Officer (Vector Institute) Stephanie Enders, Chief Delivery Officer (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) Jason Lewis, Professor and Principal Investigator (Abundant Intelligences) Source: sencanada.ca

02:04:18

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – March 12, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - March 12, 2026 Examine and report on matters related to the impact of artificial intelligence in Canada Witnesses Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor, University of Montréal (As an Individual) Jonathan Dewar, Chief Executive Officer (First Nations Information Governance Centre) Chantal Guay, Chief Executive Officer (Standards Council of Canada) Anneke Olvera, Director, Programs (Standards Council of Canada) Tania Saba, Interim Executive General (International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies) Source: sencanada.ca

01:58:14

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – February 26, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - February 26, 2026 Examine and report on matters related to the impact of artificial intelligence in Canada Witnesses Geoffrey Hinton, Professor, University of Toronto (As an Individual) David Kristjanson Duvenaud, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto (As an Individual) Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Researcher, University of California, Berkeley (As an Individual) Wyatt Tessari L'Allié, Founder and Executive Director (AI Governance and Safety Canada (AIGS Canada) Source: sencanada.ca

02:00:20

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – February 25, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - February 25, 2026 Examine and report on matters related to the impact of artificial intelligence in Canada Witnesses Kara Beckles, Executive Director, Privacy and Responsible Data (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) Dominic Rochon, Chief Information Officer of Canada (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) Mark Schaan, Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Industry (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) Elissa Strome, Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) Source: sencanada.ca

04:03:31

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – February 12, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - February 12, 2026 The subject matter of Parts 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Bill C-12, Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act Consideration of a draft report Appearing The Honourable Lena Metlege Diab, P.C., M.P., Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) Witnesses Brett Bush, Director General, Immigration and Asylum Policy Directorate (Canada Border Services Agency) Kelti Cameron, Senior Officer, International Solidarity (Canadian Union of Public Employees) Carl Desmarais, Director General, Intelligence and Enforcement Branch (Canada Border Services Agency) Julia Green, Humanitarian Immigration Lawyer (Quebec Association of Immigration Lawyers) Jason Hollmann, Director General, Asylum (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) Pablo Irribarra, Barrister and Solicitor (Battista Migration Law Group) Tamir Israel, Director, Privacy, Surveillance and Technologies Program (Canadian Civil Liberties Association) Harjit Kaur, Executive Director (Vancouver and Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services Society) Harpreet S. Kochhar, Deputy Minister (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) Tara Lang, Director General, Integrity Policy and Programs (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) Anna Lillicrap, Senior Counsel (Department of Justice Canada) Latoya Nugent, Chief Communications and Advocacy Officer (Rainbow Railroad) Aaden Pearson, Staff Lawyer and Trans Rights Legal Fellow (Canadian Civil Liberties Association) Joanie Roy-Craswell, Acting Senior Counsel, Legal Services (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) Source: sencanada.ca

03:17:26

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – February 10, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - February 10, 2026 The subject matter of Parts 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Bill C-12, Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act Witnesses Basel Abou Hamrah, Vice President (Canadian Council for Refugees) Adam Bercovitch Sadinsky, Vice President (Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers) Karen Cocq, Co-Executive Director (Migrant Rights Network) Nadine Edirmanasinghe, Lawyer (Community Legal Services of Ottawa) Joshua Eisen, In-house Counsel (FCJ Refugee Centre) Katie Lay, Staff Lawyer (Immigration and Refugee Legal Clinic) Timothy McSorley, National Coordinator (International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group) Alina Murad, Director of Federal Government Relations (The Refugee Centre) Jessica Ranger, Legal Administrator (The Refugee Centre) Julia Sande, Strategic Litigation, Refugee and Migrant Rights Campaigner (Amnesty International Canada) Gauri Sreenivasan, Co-Executive Director (Canadian Council for Refugees) Azadeh Tamjeedi, Senior Legal Officer, UN Refugee Agency, in Canada (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Anne Woolger, Founding Director (Matthew House Refugee Services Toronto) Ardeshir Zarezadeh, Lawyer and Human Rights Activist (International Center for Human Rights) Source: sencanada.ca

01:49:43

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – February 9, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - February 9, 2026 The subject matter of Parts 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Bill C-12, Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act Witnesses Michael Barutciski, Professor, York University (As an Individual) Manon Brassard, Chairperson (Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada) Roula Eatrides, Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division (Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada) Roger Ermuth, Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer (Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada) Cheryl Milne, Executive Director (David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights) Deanna Okun-Nachoff, Barrister and Solicitor (Canadian Bar Association) Source: sencanaca.ca

00:58:28

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – February 5, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - Febrary 5, 2026 Bill S-212, An Act respecting a national strategy for children and youth in Canada Clause-by-clause consideration Witnesses Kirsten Mattison, Director General, Children, Families and Learning (Indigenous Services Canada) Jennifer Novak, Director General, Mental Wellness and Health Promotion, Health and Social Sector (Indigenous Services Canada) Source: sencanada.ca

01:55:05

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – February 4, 2026

Social Affairs, Science and Technology - February 4, 2026. Election of the Deputy Chair Consideration of a draft agenda (future business) Bill S-212, An Act respecting a national strategy for children and youth in Canada Clause-by-clause consideration Source: sencanada.ca

01:36:10

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – December 10, 2025

Bill S-212, An Act respecting a national strategy for children and youth in Canada Witnesses Krista Carr, Chief Executive Officer (Inclusion Canada) Celine Debassige, Youth Advisor (As an Individual) Gabrielle Fayant, Co-Founder (Assembly of Seven Generations) Samantha Jack, National Youth Executive (National Association of Friendship Centres) Kara Louttit, Acting Policy and Research Manager (National Association of Friendship Centres) Karen Moores, Consultant, Government Relations (Easter Seals) Leila Sarangi, National Director (Campaign 2000) The subject matter of Bill C-15, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on November 4, 2025 Source: sencanada.ca

01:52:57

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – December 3, 2025

The subject matter of Bill C-15, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on November 4, 2025 Topic: Part 5, Division 25 (Human Pathogens and Toxins Act) Topic: Part 5, Division 36 (Canada Student Financial Assistance) and Division 44 (National School Food Program Act) Witnesses Kimby Barton, Director General, Centre for Biosecurity, Regulatory Operations and Emergency Management Branch (Public Health Agency of Canada) Misha Celentano, Manager, National School Food Program (Employment and Social Development Canada) Jacqueline Thorne, Director General, National School Food Program (Employment and Social Development Canada) Jonathan Wallace, Director General, Canada Student Financial Assistance Program (Employment and Social Development Canada) Source: sencanada.ca

01:01:02

In Committee from the Senate of Canada

Social Affairs, Science and Technology – November 27, 2025

Bill S-215, An Act respecting National Immigration Month Witnesses Cheickh Tidjane Bangoura, President (Africa Study Group) The Honourable Senator Amina Gerba, sponsor of the bill (As an Individual) Source: sencanada.ca