All Studies & Bills

Studies & Bills	Committee	Date Referred	note	note
The subject matter of Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families	Aboriginal Peoples APPA	(2019-03-19)
Show/Hide the list of witnesses Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 9:08 AM Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 1:01 PM The Honourable Seamus O'Regan, P.C., M.P., Minister of Indigenous Services (Indigenous Services Canada) Hadley Friedland, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta (As an Individual) Isa Gros-Louis, Director General, Child and Family Services Reform (Indigenous Services Canada) Naiomi W. Metallic, Professor and Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Dalhousie University (As an Individual) Natan Obed, President (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) Pamela D. Palmater, Associate Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance, Ryerson University (As an Individual) Laurie Sargent, Assistant Deputy Minister, Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio (Department of Justice Canada) Gaylene Schellenberg, Lawyer, Advocacy (Canadian Bar Association) David Taylor, Executive Member, Aboriginal Law Section (Canadian Bar Association) Jenny Tierney, Manager, Health & Social Development (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) Jean-François Tremblay, Deputy Minister (Indigenous Services Canada) Joanne Wilkinson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Child and Family Services Reform Branch (Indigenous Services Canada) Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 6:46 PM Holly Anderson, Guardianship Manager (Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society) Cheyenne Andy, Senior Youth Advisory member (Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society) Ashley Bach, President (Youth in Care Canada) Marcel Balfour, Senior Policy Analyst (Manitoba First Nations Family Advocate Office) Marilyn Birch, Director of Child and Family Services (Mi'kmaq Confederacy of Prince Edward Island (MCPEI)) Kayla Frank, Policy Analyst (Manitoba First Nations Family Advocate Office) Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 8:02 AM Jennifer Cox, Barrister and Solicitor, Project Lead- Enhanced Child Family Initiative (Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative) Richard Gray, Manager, Social Services (First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission) Jason LeBlanc, Executive Director (Tungasuvvingat Inuit) Paul Morris, Lead Counsel (Mi'kmaw Family and Children Services of Nova Scotia) Paul Prosper, Chief (Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation) Billie Schibler, Chief Executive Officer (Métis Child and Family Services Authority) The Honourable Elisapee Sheutiapik, Minister for Family Services and Government House Leader (Government of Nunavut) Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 1:02 PM Debbie Abbott, Executive Director (Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council) Constant Awashish, Grand Chief, Chair of the Atikamekw Nation Council (Atikamekw Nation Council) Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh, Grand Chief (Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3) Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Director, Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia (As an Individual) Ardith Walkem, Barrister and Solicitor (Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council) Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 6:45 PM Joel Abram, Grand Chief (Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians) Robert Bertrand, National Chief (Congress of Aboriginal Peoples) Lisa Cooper, Chief, Native Council of PEI and CAP Board Member (Congress of Aboriginal Peoples) Arlen Dumas, Grand Chief (Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs) Jocelyn Formsma, Executive Director (National Association of Friendship Centres) David Pratt, Vice Chief (Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations) Kyle Prettyshield, Health and Social Director (Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations) Raymond Shingoose, Director of Yorkton Tribal Council Child and Family Services (Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations) Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 8:00 AM Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director (First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada) Isa Gros-Louis, Director General, Child and Family Services Reform (Indigenous Services Canada) Kevin Hart, Regional Chief (Assembly of First Nations) Francyne Joe, President (Native Women's Association of Canada) Melissa Lambert-Tenasco, Policy Advisor (Native Women's Association of Canada) Virginia Lomax, Legal Counsel (Native Women's Association of Canada) Kevin Page, President and CEO (Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy) Laurie Sargent, Assistant Deputy Minister, Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio (Department of Justice Canada) Jean-François Tremblay, Deputy Minister (Indigenous Services Canada) Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Senior Advisor (Assembly of First Nations) Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Formerly the Minister’s Special Representative on Child Welfare (As an Individual) Joanne Wilkinson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Child and Family Services Reform Branch (Indigenous Services Canada)
Study on issues relating to the federal government's current and evolving policy framework for managing Canada's fisheries and oceans	Fisheries and Oceans POFO	(2019-02-28)
The subject matter of Bill C-91, An Act respecting Indigenous languages	Aboriginal Peoples APPA	(2019-02-28)
Show/Hide the list of witnesses Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 1:02 PM Debbie Abbott, Executive Director (Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council) Constant Awashish, Grand Chief, Chair of the Atikamekw Nation Council (Atikamekw Nation Council) Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh, Grand Chief (Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3) Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Director, Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia (As an Individual) Ardith Walkem, Barrister and Solicitor (Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council) Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 1:00 PM Blake Desjarlais, Director of Public & National Affairs (Métis Settlements General Council) Shannon Gullberg, Official Languages Commissioner (Office of the Official Languages Commissioner of the Northwest Territories) Tina Jules, Director, Yukon Native Language Centre (Council of Yukon First Nations) Helen Klengenberg, Official Languages Commissioner (Office of the Official Languages Commissioner of Nunavut) Corinne McKay, Secretary-Treasurer (Nisga'a Lisims Government) David Morin, Curriculum Developer (Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research) Karon Shmon, Director, Publishing (Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research) Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 6:46 PM Claudette Commanda, Executive Director (First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres) Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Indigenous Academic Lead, Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg (As an Individual) Susanne Gressner, Research and Development, Linguist (First Peoples' Cultural Council) Tracey Herbert, Chief Executive Officer (First Peoples' Cultural Council) Robert Matthew, Principal (T'selcéwtqen Clleq'mel'ten/Chief Atahm School) Imelda Perley, Elder-in-Residence, Mi'kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, University of New Brunswick (As an Individual) Wanda Wilson, President (Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre) Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 8:04 AM Susan Enuaraq, Senior Advisor, Inuktut (Government of Nunavut) Ellen Gabriel, Representative (Kontinónhstats - The Mohawk Language Custodian Association from Kanehsatà:ke) The Honourable David Joanasie, Minister of Languages, Minister of Culture and Heritage and Minister of Education (Government of Nunavut) Aluki Kotierk, President (Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated) Jordan Lachler, Director (Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute) Ian Martin, Professor, Glendon College, York University (As an Individual) Rebecca Mearns, Dean of Education, Inuit and University Studies (Nunavut Arctic College) Zebedee Nungak, Specialist, Language file (Avataq Cultural Institute) Josepi Padlayat, President (Avataq Cultural Institute) Karen Sandy, Director (Six Nations of the Grand River) Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 6:45 PM Tim Argetsinger, Political Advisor (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) Perry Bellegarde, National Chief (Assembly of First Nations) Roger Jones, Special Advisor to the National Chief (Assembly of First Nations) Natan Obed, President (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 8:00 AM The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, P.C., M.P, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism (Canadian Heritage) Robert Bertrand, National Chief (Congress of Aboriginal Peoples) Melissa Cernigoy, Senior Policy Advisor (Congress of Aboriginal Peoples) Clément Chartier, President (Métis National Council) Jocelyn Formsma, Executive Director (National Association of Friendship Centres) Stephen Gagnon, Federal Representative, Indigenous Languages Legislation, Citizenship, Heritage and Regions Sector (Canadian Heritage) Casey Hunley, Policy Advisor, Education (Native Women's Association of Canada) Francyne Joe, President (Native Women's Association of Canada) Hélène Laurendeau, Deputy Minister (Canadian Heritage) Allan MacDonald, Director General of Implementation, Implementation Sector (Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada) John Topping, Director, Strategic Policy Development Directorate, Treaties and Aboriginal Government Sector (Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada) Adrian Walraven, Acting Director General, Education, Education and Social Development Programs and Partnerships Sector (Indigenous Services Canada)
Government Response to the nineteenth report of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, entitled "From Soldier to Civilian: professionalizing the Transition"	Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs VEAC	(2019-02-25)
Government response to the twenty-fourth report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, entitled "The Federal Role in Social Finance Fund"	Social Affairs, Science and Technology SOCI	(2019-02-25)
Government response to the thirty-second report of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance, entitled "The Phoenix Pay Problem-Working Toward a Solution"	National Finance NFFN	(2019-02-22)
Show/Hide the list of witnesses Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 6:50 PM Steven MacKinnon M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement (As an Individual) The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, P.C., M.P., Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility (Public Services and Procurement Canada) Les Linklater, Associate Deputy Minister, HR-to-Pay Stabilization (Public Services and Procurement Canada) Jacquie Manchevsky, Corporate Secretary, Next Generation HR and Pay Team, Office of the Chief Information Officer (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)
Government response to the twenty-seventh report of the Standing Senate Committtee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, entitled "The Shame is Ours: Forced Adoptions of the Babies of Unmarried Mothers in Post-war Canada"	Social Affairs, Science and Technology SOCI	(2019-02-22)
Government response to the twenty-fourth report of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance, entitled "Fair, Simple and Competitive Taxation: The Way Forward for Canada"	National Finance NFFN	(2019-02-21)
Government response to the twenty-sixth report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, entitled "Breaking Down Barriers: A critical analysis of the Disability Tax Credit and Registered Disability Savings Plan"	Social Affairs, Science and Technology SOCI	(2019-02-21)
Interim Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020	National Finance NFFN	(2019-02-21)
Show/Hide the list of witnesses Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 9:31 AM Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 2:15 PM The Honourable Jane Philpott, P.C., M.P., President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) Karen Cahill, Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) Glenn Purves, Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) Marcia Santiago, Executive Director, Expenditure Strategies and Estimates (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)

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