Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18-19
Chair: The Honourable LILLIAN EVA DYCK
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Issue No. 52
First, second and third meetings:
Subject matter of Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families
and
Sixth (final) meeting:
Subject matter of Bill C-91, An Act respecting Indigenous languages
WITNESSES
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Indigenous Services Canada:
Jean-François Tremblay, Deputy Minister;
Joanne Wilkinson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Child and Family Services Reform;
Isa Gros-Louis, Director General, Child and Family Services Reform.
Department of Justice Canada:
Laurie Sargent, Assistant Deputy Minister, Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio.
As an individual:
Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Former Minister's Special Representative on Child Welfare.
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada:
Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director.
Assembly of First Nations:
Kevin Hart, Regional Chief;
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Senior Advisor.
Native Women's Association of Canada:
Francyne Joe, President;
Virginia Lomax, Legal Counsel;
Melissa Lambert-Tenasco, Policy Advisor.
Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy:
Kevin Page, President and CEO.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples:
Robert Bertrand, National Chief;
Lisa Cooper, Chief, Native Council of PEI and CAP Board Member.
National Association of Friendship Centres:
Jocelyn Formsma, Executive Director.
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs:
Arlen Dumas, Grand Chief.
Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians:
Joel Abram, Grand Chief (by video conference).
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)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the orders of the Senate of November 7, 2017 and of November 20, 2018, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator McCallum replaced the Honourable Senator Sinclair (April 11, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Sinclair replaced the Honourable Senator McCallum (April 11, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Patterson replaced the Honourable Senator Martin (April 11, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Francis replaced the Honourable Senator Griffin (April 11, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Martin replaced the Honourable Senator Patterson (April 10, 2019).
The Honourable Senator McCallum replaced the Honourable Senator Sinclair (April 10, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Sinclair replaced the Honourable Senator McCallum (April 9, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Griffin replaced the Honourable Senator Busson (April 9, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Busson replaced the Honourable Senator Francis (April 8, 2019).