The Chair presented the Second Report from the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure which read as follows:
Your Subcommittee met on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, to consider the business of the Committee and agreed to make the following recommendations:
1. That the Standing Committee on National Defence meet on March 23, 25 and 30, 2009 to consider a draft report related to its study of health services provided to Canadian Forces personnel with an emphasis on post-traumatic stress disorder;
2. That the Standing Committee on National Defence meet on April 1, 2009 to receive a briefing from the Department of National Defence on the recent incident of a Russian military aircraft approaching Canada’s Airspace;
3. That the Standing Committee on National Defence meet on April 20, 22, 27 and 29, 2009 to hear witnesses related to it study on arctic sovereignty;
4. That the following witnesses be invited to appear before the Standing Committee on National Defence in relation to its study on Arctic Sovereignty:
• Witnesses from relevant Departments: DND, DFAIT, Environment, Natural Resources, Transport (Coast Guard), DIAND;
• DND: Vice-Admiral McFadden (Canada Command); Brigadier General David Miller (Commander Joint Task Force North), etc.;
• DFAIT: the legal aspects of the sovereignty issue, the legitimacy of Canada’s claims, competing claims, etc.;
• Canadian Polar Commission (Tom Hutchinson, Chair);
• Prof. Michael Byers, University of British Columbia; Authority on sovereignty issues, international legal issues;
• Prof. Dan Middlemiss, Naval expert, Dalhousie University;
• Commodore (Ret’d.) Eric Lehre, Navy and sovereignty issues, Dalhousie University;
• Commander (Ret’d.) Peter Hayden, Naval expert, particularly submarines;
• Prof. Ken Coates, University of Waterloo; Historian with a wide knowledge of northern issues;
• Prof. P. Whitney Lackenbauer, St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo; Leading expert on northern security and defence issues (Could also address Aboriginal Issues);
• Prof. William R. Morrison, University of Northern British Columbia; Leading Northern historian;
• Prof. Greg Poelzer; Leading expert on circumpolar affairs and the politics of the modern north; knowledgeable on Russia and Scandinavia;
• Prof. Louis Fortier, University of Laval; Northern Ecosystems;
• Prof. Donat Pharand, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa;
• Prof. Rob Huebert, Associate director of the Center for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary;
• Colonel (Ret’d.) Pierre Leblanc, former Commander, Canadian Forces Northern Area;
• Prof. Franklyn Griffiths; Authority on Northern sovereignty issues;
• Prof. Suzanne Lalonde, University of Montreal. (Faculty of Law).