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Indigenous Peoples

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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 4 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Wednesday, February 12, 2014:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Raine, seconded by the Honourable Senator Gerstein, for the second reading of Bill C-16, An Act to give effect to the Governance Agreement with Sioux Valley Dakota Nation and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.

After debate,

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

The bill was then read the second time.

The Honourable Senator Raine moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator LeBreton, P.C., that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples.

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

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Tuesday, February 25, 2014:

The Honourable Senator Patterson moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Bellemare:

That the Standing Senate Committee Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to examine and report on challenges and potential solutions relating to First Nations infrastructure on reserves, including, but not limited to:

(a) housing;

(b) community infrastructure (such as water and wastewater treatment, schools and other community buildings); and

(c) innovative opportunities for financing and more effective collaborative strategies;

That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the committee during the Second Session of the Forty-first Parliament, as part of its study 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, as authorized by the Senate on November 21, 2013, form part of the papers and evidence received and taken for the purposes of this study; and

That the committee submit its final report no later than December 31, 2015 and that the committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings for 180 days after the tabling of the final report.

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

Gary W. O'Brien

Clerk of the Senate

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