Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Wednesday, February 25, 2009:

The Honourable Senator St. Germain, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Champagne, P.C.:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to examine and report on the federal government's constitutional, treaty, political and legal responsibilities to First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples and on other matters generally relating to the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada; and

That the Committee submit its final report to the Senate no later than March 31, 2010.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate