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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 67
Thursday, February 28, 2002
The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights met at 9:40 a.m. this day, in Room 701, La Promenade Building, the Chair, Andy Scott, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Michel Bellehumeur, Chuck Cadman, Ivan Grose, Paul Harold Macklin, John Maloney, John McKay, Lynn Myers, Andy Scott.
Acting Members present: Murray Calder for Denis Paradis; Rodger Cuzner for Carole-Marie Allard; Dominic LeBlanc for Paul de Villers; Chuck Strahl for Peter MacKay.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Marilyn Pilon, researcher; Philip Rosen, senior analyst.
Pursuant to its Order of Reference of Tuesday,
October 16, 2001, the Committee resumed consideration of Bill C-217, An Act to
provide for the taking of samples of blood for the benefit of persons
administering and enforcing the law and good Samaritans and to amend the
Criminal Code (See Minutes of Proceedings, Wednesday, December 12, 2001,
Meeting No. 57).
John Maloney moved - That Bill C-217, the Blood Samples
Act, do no proceed to clause-by-clause consideration at this time, and that, pursuant to Standing Order
97.1, the Committee recommend that the House of Commons do not proceed further
with this Bill, that the Order be discharged and that the Bill be withdrawn
from the Order Paper.
After
debate, the motion was agreed to unanimously.
John
Maloney moved - The Committee
recommend that the Department of Justice place the issues addressed in Bill
C-217, An Act to provide for the taking of samples of blood for the benefit
of persons administering and enforcing the law and good Samaritans and to amend
the Criminal Code, on the agenda of the next meeting of the
Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers of Justice, Attorneys General and
Solicitors General as well as on the Agenda of the Uniform Law Conference.
After debate,
the motion was agreed to unanimously.
Chuck
Strahl moved - That the Committee recommend that Health Canada increase its
efforts to gather statistics on the number of front-line emergency workers,
paramedics, police officers and medical and hospital workers who are exposed to
blood borne pathogens in the course of their duties and that the Committee also
recommend that the government allocate the resources necessary to achieve this
objective.
After
debate, the motion was agreed to unanimously.
ORDERED, -- That pursuant to Standing Order 97.1, the Chair report the decision of the Committee concerning Bill C-217 to the House of Commons.
At 9:56 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Jean-François Pagé / Marie Danielle Vachon
Clerks of the Committee