ORDER OF REFERENCE Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, April 27, 2023: With leave of the Senate, The Honourable Senator Gagné moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Gold, P.C.: That, notwithstanding any provision of the Rules, previous order or usual practice: 1. in accordance with rule 10-11(1), the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to examine the subject matter of all of Bill C-47,

An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023, introduced in the House of Commons on April 20, 2023, in advance of the said bill coming before the Senate; 2. in addition, the following committees be separately authorized to examine the subject matter of the following elements contained in Bill C-47: (

a) the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy: those elements contained in Clauses to concerning cryptoasset mining in

Part 2, and Divisions 1, 2, 6, 7, 26, 33 and of

Part 4; (

b) the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources: those elements contained in Divisions and of

Part 4; (

c) the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans: those elements contained in Subdivisions A, B and C of Division of

Part 4; (

d) the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade: those elements contained in Divisions 4, 5, 10 and of

Part 4, and in Subdivision A of Division of

Part 4; (

e) the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs: those elements contained in Divisions 30, 31, 34 and of

Part 4, and in Subdivision B of Division of

Part 4; (

f) the Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs: those elements contained in Division of

Part 4; (

g) the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology: those elements contained in Divisions 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25, 27, 28, 29, 35 and of

Part 4; and (

h) the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications: those elements contained in Division of

Part 3, and Divisions and of

Part 4; 3. each of the committees listed in point that are authorized to examine the subject matter of particular elements of Bill C-47: (

a) submit its final report to the Senate no later than June 2, 2023; and (

b) be authorized to deposit its report with the Clerk of the Senate if the Senate is not then sitting; 4. as the reports from the various committees authorized to examine the subject matter of particular elements of Bill C-47 are tabled in the Senate, they be placed on the Orders of the Day for consideration at the next sitting, provided that if a report is deposited with the Clerk, it be placed on the Orders of the Day for consideration at the next sitting following the one on which the depositing is recorded in the Journals of the Senate; 5. the aforementioned committees be authorized to meet for the purposes of their studies of the subject matter of all or particular elements of Bill C-47, even though the Senate may then be sitting or adjourned, with the application of rules 12-18(1) and 12-18(2) being suspended in relation thereto; and 6. the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to take any reports tabled under point into consideration during its study of the subject matter of all of Bill C-47.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted. Gérald Lafrenière Interim Clerk of the Senate