Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples
Issue 1 - Orders of Reference
Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, November 24, 1999:
The Honourable Senator Watt moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Mercier:
That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to examine and report on the recommendations of the Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples (Sessional Paper No. 2/35-508) respecting Aboriginal governance and, in particular, seek the comments of Aboriginal peoples and of other interested parties on:
1. the new structural relationships required between Aboriginal Peoples and the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government and between the various Aboriginal communities themselves;
2. the mechanisms of implementing such new structural relationships; and
3. the models of Aboriginal self-government required to respond to the needs of Aboriginal Peoples and to complement these new structural relationships;
That the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject and the work accomplished by the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples during the first session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament be referred to the Committee;
That the Committee submit its final report no later than December 16, 1999, and that the Committee retain all powers necessary to publicize the findings of the Committee contained in the final report until December 24, 1999; and
That the Committee be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit its report with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not then sitting; and that the report be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, December 16, 1999:
The Honourable Senator Pearson for the Honourable Senator Watt moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Mahovlich:
That, notwithstanding the Order of the Senate adopted on Wednesday, November 24, 1999, the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to examine and report on the recommendations of the Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples (Sessional Paper 2/35-508). respecting Aboriginal governance and, in particular, seek the comments of Aboriginal Peoples and of other interested parties on:
1. the new structural relationships required between Aboriginal Peoples and the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government and between the various Aboriginal communities themselves;
2. the mechanisms of implementing such new structural relationships; and
3. the models of Aboriginal self-government required to respond to the needs of Aboriginal Peoples and to complement these new structural relationships;
That the Committee be empowered to submit its final report no later than February 16, 2000, and that the Committee retain all powers necessary to publicize the findings of the Committee contained in the final report until February 29, 2000, and
That the Committee be permitted, notwithstanding usual practices, to deposit its report with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not then sitting; and that the report be deemed to have been tabled in the Chamber.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Paul C. Bélisle
Clerk of the Senate