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Educational Resources PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SIMULATION Name: Role: Presenting to the Committee You will be making a presentation to the committee.

Your goal is to convince committee members to view the bill the same way that you do.

You will try to convince them to support the bill as written, to vote against clauses that you don’t support, or to change the wording of the clauses to make them more favourable to your group.

Read your role card and answer the questions below.
The role card contains the “building blocks” for your presentation.

Do not simply read them to the committee.

Adapt them using your own words, and adding any details that you think would be helpful.

What is my central goal?

What does my character want the committee to do with this bill?

What arguments or reasons might I offer to the committee to encourage them to accept my character’s point of view.

Place a check mark against those that are likely to be most convincing to members of the committee.

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© 2013 Library of Parliament www.parl.gc.ca/education | Page 1 of 2 Parliament of Canada | Educational Resources PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SIMULATION Look at the list of witnesses.

Predict the position each of them will take.

Witness group Predicted position © 2013 www.parl.gc.ca/education | Page 2 of 2