THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
OTTAWA, Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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[English]
The Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples met this day at 6:45 p.m., in room C128, Senate of Canada Building, the chair, the Honourable Michèle Audette, presiding.
Members of the committee present: The Honourable Senators Audette, Francis, Karetak-Lindell, McCallum, McPhedran, Pate, Prosper, Sorensen and Tannas (9).
Participating in the meeting: Sara Fryer and Allison Lowenger, Analysts, Library of Parliament.
Pursuant to the order of reference adopted by the Senate on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, the committee continued its examination of the government response, dated April 26, 2024, to the committee’s fourteenth report (interim), entitled Honouring the Children Who Never Came Home: Truth, Education and Reconciliation, tabled in the Senate on July 19, 2023, during the First Session of the Forty‑fourth Parliament.
WITNESSES:
Assembly of First Nations:
Kúkwpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir;
Kyrie Tristary, Lead Senior Director.
As an individual:
Cadmus Delorme, Former Chairperson of the Residential School Documents Advisory Committee and Former Chief of the Cowessess First Nation (by videoconference).
Kúkwpi7 Rosanne Casimir and Cadmus Delorme each made a statement and, together with Kyrie Tristary, answered questions.
At 8:09 p.m., the committee suspended.
At 8:15 p.m., pursuant to rule 12-16(1)(d), the committee resumed in camera to discuss a draft agenda (future business).
It was agreed that the committee allow the audio recording and/or transcription of the in camera portion of today’s meeting, that one copy be kept with the clerk of the committee for consultation by committee members or their staff, and that the audio recording and/or transcript be destroyed by the clerk of the committee when authorized to do so by the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure, but no later than at the end of this parliamentary session.
At 8:20 p.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the chair.
ATTEST:
Sébastien Payet
Clerk of the Committee