Bill C-551 (Historical)

National Security Committee of Parliamentarians Act

An Act to establish the National Security Committee of Parliamentarians

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Wayne Easter  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Nov. 7, 2013
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment establishes the National Security Committee of Parliamentarians and sets out the composition, mandate and duties of the Committee.

Similar bills

C-352 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) National Security Committee of Parliamentarians Act
C-352 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) National Security Committee of Parliamentarians Act
C-447 (39th Parliament, 2nd session) National Security Committee of Parliamentarians
C-447 (39th Parliament, 1st session) National Security Committee of Parliamentarians Act
C-81 (38th Parliament, 1st session) National Security Committee of Parliamentarians Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-551s:

C-551 (2010) An Act to amend the Investment Canada Act (committee members)
C-551 (2008) Prevention of Torture Act

Navigable Waters Protection ActRoutine Proceedings

December 2nd, 2013 / 3:15 p.m.


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Liberal

Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE

Mr. Speaker, I rise to seek unanimous consent of the House for the following motion, that Bill C-551, An Act to establish the National Security Committee of Parliamentarians be deemed read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.

The reason for this motion is that there is growing concern as to the accountability of our intelligence agencies and the proposal contained in this legislation would provide oversight. It was crafted with the current Minister of National Defence and the current—