The Chair presented the Fourth Report from the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure which read as follows:
Your Subcommittee met on Thursday, October 29, 2009, to consider the business of the Committee and agreed to make the following recommendations:
That, in accordance with the two motions adopted by the Committee on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, a series of five thematic panel meetings be held on the subject of Sections 37 and 38 of the Canada Evidence Act and the transfer of Afghan detainees, beginning on Wednesday, November 4, 2009; with the possibility of having, in certain cases, two meetings a week when necessary; and that the following witnesses be invited to appear before the Committee as part of this study, subject to their availability:
Panel 1 – Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Brigadier-General Kenneth W. Watkin,
Judge Advocate General,
Department of National Defence;
Robert R. Walsh,
Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel,
House of Commons;
Doug Breithaupt,
Director and General Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section,
Department of Justice;
Panel 2 – Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Peter Tinsley,
Chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission,
Department of National Defence;
Captain Steven Moore (retired),
former Canadian Forces Provost Martial;
Richard Colvin,
First Secretary and Liaison Officer, Intelligence Liaison,
Canadian Embassy in Washington;
Panel 3 – Wednesday, November 25, 2009
General Richard J. Hillier (retired),
former Chief of Defence Staff;
Lieutenant-General Michel Gauthier (retired),
former Commander,
Canadian Expeditionary Force Command;
Major-General David Fraser,
former Commander,
Regional Command (South);
Panel 4 – Thursday, November 26, 2009
Colleen Swords, former Assistant Deputy Minister, International Security Branch,
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade;
Scott Proudfoot, former Director
Afganistan Policy and Advocacy Division,
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade;
Linda Garwood, former Director,
Corrections Component
Kandahar, Provincial Reconstruction Team;
Panel 5 – Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The Hon. Peter Mackay,
Minister of National Defence;
the Hon. Lawrence Cannon,
Minister of Foreign Affairs;
the Hon. Gordon O’Connor, former Minister of National Defence (2006 – 2007);
the Hon. John Manley, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2000 – 2002);
the Hon. Bill Graham,
former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2002 – 2004) and former Minister of National Defence (2004 – 2006).