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THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, DEFENCE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

ORDER OF REFERENCE

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Wednesday, June 21st, 2023:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Yussuff, seconded by the Honourable Senator Boehm, for the second reading of Bill C-21,

An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms).

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted on the following vote:

YEAS

The Honourable Senators

Audette Bernard Boehm Boniface Burey Busson Cardozo Clement Cordy Cormier Cotter Coyle Dagenais Dalphond Dasko Deacon (Nova Scotia) Deacon (Ontario) Dean Duncan Dupuis Forest Gerba Gignac Gold Green wood Harder Hartling Jaffer Klyne Kutcher LaBoucane-Benson Loffreda MacAdam Marwah Mégie Miville-Dechêne Moncion Omidvar Osler Pate Patterson(Ontario) Petitclerc Petten Quinn Ravalia Ringuette Saint-Germain Simons Smith Sorensen Woo Yussuff—52

NAYS

The Honourable Senators

Ataullahjan Batters Black Boisvenu Carignan Housakos MacDonald Manning Marshall Martin Mockler Oh Patterson (Nunavut) Plett Richards Seidman Wallin Wells—18

ABSTENTIONS

The Honourable Senators

Nil

Accordingly, Bill C-21 was read a second time.

The Honourable Senator Yussuff moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Loffreda, that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Gérald Lafrenière

Interim Clerk of the Senate

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