Past Session:

Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011-12-13

Chair: The Honourable VERNON WHITE

Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Issue No. 39

Forty-fourth and forty-fifth meetings on:

The federal government's constitutional, treaty, political and legal responsibilities to First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples and other matters generally relating to the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada

First (final) meeting on:

Bill C-62, An Act to give effect to the Yale First Nation Final Agreement and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

INCLUDING:
THE THIRTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Bill C-62)

APPEARING

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Greg Rickford, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario

WITNESSES

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Public Safety Canada:

Shawn Tupper, Assistant Deputy Minister, Community Safety and Partnerships Branch;

Annie Leblanc, Director, Policy and Coordination;

Daniel Sansfaçon, Director, Policy, Research and Evaluation Division;

Kimberly Lavoie, Director, Aboriginal Corrections Policy Division.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada:

Jim Barkwell, Senior Director of Negotiations, South, Treaties and Aboriginal Government.

Yale First Nation:

Norman Hope, Chief.

Stó:lō Nation (by videoconference):

Joe Hall, Grand Chief, President;

Jean Teillet, Chief Negotiator, Legal Counsel.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Vernon White, Chair

The Honourable Lillian Eva Dyck, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Beyak, * Cowan (or Tardif), Demers, * LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), Lovelace Nicholas, Meredith, Munson, Raine, Seth, Sibbeston, Tannas, Watt

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Meredith replaced the Honourable Senator Patterson (June 12, 2013).

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