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, May 7, 2019 (in camera)
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Issue No. 54

Seventh (final) meeting:
Subject matter of Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families

and

First and second meetings:
Subject matter of those elements contained in Division 25 of Part 4 of Bill C-97, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 19, 2019 and other measures

INCLUDING:
THE SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(The subject matter of Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families)

• Order of Reference
• Minutes of Proceedings - May 7, 2019 (in camera)
• Minutes of Proceedings - May 14, 2019
• Minutes of Proceedings - May 16, 2019
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - May 14, 2019
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - May 16, 2019
• Seventeenth Report of the Committee

WITNESSES

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples:

Robert Bertrand, National Chief.

National Association of Friendship Centres:

Jocelyn Formsma, Executive Director.

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs:

Marcel Balfour, Senior Policy Analyst.

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Ermineskin Cree Nation:

Craig Makinaw, Chief.

Onion Lake Cree Nation:

Okimaw Henry Lewis, Chief.

As individuals:

Scott Serson, former Deputy Minister, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada;

Veldon Coburn, Faculty member, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University.

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada:

Daniel Watson, Deputy Minister;

Jean-Pierre Morin, Departmental Historian, Strategic Policy Directorate.

Indigenous Services Canada:

Jean-François Tremblay, Deputy Minister;

François Masse, Director General, Strategic Policy, Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Lillian Eva Dyck, Chair

The Honourable Scott Tannas, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Coyle, *Day (or Mercer), Doyle, Francis, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Klyne, 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 Klyne replaced the Honourable Senator Christmas (May 15, 2019).

The Honourable Senator McCallum replaced the Honourable Senator Anderson (May 3, 2019).