Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 6 - Order of Reference

The Honourable Senator Chalifoux moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Christensen:

That the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, pursuant to the input it has received from urban Aboriginal people and organizations, be authorized to examine and report upon issues affecting urban Aboriginal youth in Canada. In particular, the Committee shall be authorized to examine access, provision and delivery of services; policy and jurisdictional issues; employment and education; access to economic opportunities; youth participation and empowerment; and other related matters;

That the Committee report to the Senate no later than June 28, 2002; and

That the Committee be authorized, notwithstanding customary practice, to table its report to the Clerk of the Senate if the Senate is not sitting, and that a report so tabled be deemed to have been tabled in the Senate.

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate