Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 3 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, February 18, 2016:

With leave of the Senate,

The Honourable Senator Dyck moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Mercer:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to examine and report on best practices and on-going challenges relating to housing in First Nation and Inuit communities in Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut and the Northwest Territories, including, but not limited to:

(a) innovative solutions and technologies for the construction of housing in the North;

(b) financing opportunities and challenges to the construction, operations, and maintenance costs of housing;

(c) federal and cost-shared territorial programs and activities in relation to northern housing;

That the committee submit its final report no later than October 31, 2016 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.

Charles Robert

Clerk of the Senate