Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 10 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Wednesday, June 2, 2010:

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

That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to study and report on progress made on commitments endorsed by Parliamentarians of both Chambers since the Government's apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools;

That the committee hear from the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, the National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, the President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and the President of the Métis National Council on this subject; and

That the Committee report no later than December 2, 2010.

After debate,

With leave of the Senate, the motion was modified to read as follows:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to study and report on progress made on commitments endorsed by Parliamentarians of both Chambers since the Government's apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools;

That the committee hear from the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, the National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, the President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the President of the Métis National Council on this subject and such other witnesses as the committee deems appropriate; and

That the Committee report no later than December 2, 2010.

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

Gary W. O'Brien

Clerk of the Senate