Past Session:

Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

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

Chair: The Honourable RICHARD NEUFELD

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thursday May 9, 2013

Issue No. 44

Fourth and fifth (final) meetings on:

Bill C-47, An Act to enact the Nunavut Planning and Project Assessment Act and the Northwest Territories Surface Rights Board Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts

INCLUDING:
THE TENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE (Bill C-47)

APPEARING

The Honourable Bernard Valcourt, P.C., M.P., Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development

WITNESSES

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Nunavut Impact Review Board:

Elizabeth Copland, Chairperson;

Ryan Barry, Executive Director.

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada:

Janet King, Assistant Deputy Minister, Northern Affairs;

Janice Traynor, Analyst, Environmental Policy, Northern Affairs;

Camille Vézina, Manager, Legislation and Policy, Northern Affairs.

Justice Canada:

Tom Isaac, Senior Counsel.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Richard Neufeld, Chair

The Honourable Grant Mitchell, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Baker, P.C., *Cowan (or Tardif), *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), MacDonald, Massicotte, Patterson, Raine, Ringuette, Seidman, Sibbeston, Unger, Wallace

* 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 Raine replaced the Honourable Senator Lang (May 8, 2013).

Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources