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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 7
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1998
The Sub-Committee on Human Rights and International Development of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade met in camera at 3:42 o’clock p.m., this day, in room 307, West Block, the Chair, Colleen Beaumier, presiding.
Members of the Sub-Committee present: Colleen Beaumier, Paul Bonwick Claudette Bradshaw, Maud Debien, Keith Martin.
Other Members present: Benoît Sauvageau; bob Mills.
In attendance: From the Parliamentary Research Branch of the Library of Parliament: Patricia Bégin and Gerald Schmitz, Research Officers.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Sub-Committee considered its future business.
It was agreed, --That the Sub-Committee convene a hearing on Wednesday, February 18, 1998 to examine a draft report on international child abductions.
It was agreed, --That the Sub-Committee recommend to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade that it meet the Friends of Burma and Burmese Parliamentarians in Exil during a conference on Burma, which will be convened in Ottawa on April 27-28, 1998.
It was agreed, --That the Committee meet with the following groups, for a period of a half hour each: PEN Canada Writers in Prison Committee; B’Nai Brith Institute for International Affairs; and the Network on International Human Rights Liaison Committee with Parliament.
It was agreed, --That the Sub-Committee continue to convene its hearings on Wednesday afternoons.
It was agreed, --That as its next order of business, the Sub-Committee, jointly with the Sub-Committee on Trade, Trade Disputes and Investment examine the linkages between trade and human rights.
At 4:10 o’clock p.m., the Sub-Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Janice Hilchie
Clerk of the Committee