Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable LILLIAN EVA DYCK
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Issue No. 50
First and second meetings:
Subject matter of Bill C-91, An Act respecting Indigenous languages
APPEARING
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, P.C., M.P., Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism.
WITNESSES
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Canadian Heritage:
Hélène Laurendeau, Deputy Minister;
Stephen Gagnon, Federal Representative, Indigenous Languages Legislation, Citizenship, Heritage and Regions Sector.
Indigenous Services Canada:
Adrian Walraven, Acting Director General, Education, Education and Social Development Programs and Partnerships Sector.
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada:
John Topping, Director, Strategic Policy Development Directorate, Treaties and Aboriginal Government Sector;
Allan MacDonald, Director General of Implementation, Implementation Sector.
Métis National Council:
Clément Chartier, President.
National Association of Friendship Centres:
Jocelyn Formsma, Executive Director.
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples:
Robert Bertrand, National Chief;
Melissa Cernigoy, Senior Policy Advisor.
Native Women's Association of Canada:
Francyne Joe, President;
Casey Hunley, Policy Advisor, Education.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Assembly of First Nations:
Perry Bellegarde, National Chief;
Roger Jones, Special Advisor to the National Chief.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami:
Natan Obed, President;
Tim Argetsinger, Political Advisor.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Lillian Eva Dyck, Chair
The Honourable Scott Tannas, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Christmas, Coyle, *Day (or Mercer), Doyle, Francis, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), LaBoucane-Benson, Lovelace Nicholas, McCallum, McInnis, McPhedran, Ngo, Pate, Patterson, Plett, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)