Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 16 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Thursday, December 15, 2016:

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

That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples be authorized to examine and report on a new relationship between Canada and First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples, including, but not limited to:

(a) the history of the relationship between indigenous people and newcomers;

(b) the main principles of a new relationship; and

(c) the application of these principles to specific issues affecting indigenous people in Canada.

That the committee submit its final report no later than October 31, 2018 and that the committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings for 180 days after the tabling of the final report.

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

Charles Robert

Clerk of the Senate