REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE |
THURSDAY, November 29, 2001 |
The Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
has the honour to present its
FIFTH REPORT
Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate on Thursday, September 27, 2001, to examine and report upon issues affecting urban Aboriginal youth in Canada. In particular, the Committee shall be authorized to examine access, provision and delivery of services; policy and jurisdictional issues; employment and education; access to economic opportunities; youth participation and empowerment; and other related matters; and to present its final report no later than June 28, 2002, respectfully requests that it be empowered to engage the services of such counsel and technical, clerical and other personnel as may be necessary.
Pursuant to Section 2:07 of the Procedural
Guidelines for the Financial Operation of Senate Committees, the budget
submitted to the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and
Administration and the report thereon of that Committee are appended to this
report.
Respectfully
submitted,
THELMA J. CHALIFOUX
Chair
SPECIAL
STUDY ON URBAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
APPLICATION
FOR BUDGET AUTHORIZATION
FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 2002
“Extract from the Journals
of the Senate, Thursday, September 27, 2001:
The
Honourable Senator Chalifoux moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator
Christensen:
THAT the
Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, pursuant to the input it has
received from urban Aboriginal people and organizations, be authorized to
examine and report upon issues affecting urban Aboriginal youth in Canada.
In particular, the Committee shall be authorized to examine access,
provision and delivery of services; policy and jurisdictional issues; employment
and education; access to economic opportunities; youth participation and
empowerment; and other related matters;
THAT the
Committee report to the Senate no later than June 28, 2002; and
THAT the
Committee be authorized, notwithstanding customary practice, to table its report
to the Clerk of the Senate if the Senate is not sitting, and that a report so
tabled be deemed to have been tabled in the Senate.
The question
being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Paul C. Bélisle
Clerk of the Senate
APPENDIX (B)
The Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration
has examined and approved the budget presented to it by the Standing Committee
on Aboriginal Peoples for the proposed expenditures of the said Committee for
the fiscal year ending March 31, 2002 for
the purpose of its Special Study on Urban Youth, as authorized by the Senate on
Thursday, September 27, 2001. The approved budget is as follows: