Indigenous Peoples
Study on the Federal Government’s Responsibilities to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples--Committee Authorized to Study Government Response to Fourteenth Report of the Committee Tabled During First Session of Forty-fourth Parliament and Refer Papers and Evidence from Previous Session to Current Session
October 7, 2025
For Senator Audette, pursuant to notice of October 2, 2025, moved:
That the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples be authorized to examine and report on 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;
That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the committee on this subject during the First Session of the Forty-fourth Parliament be referred to the committee; and
That the committee submit its final report to the Senate no later than December 31, 2026, and that the committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings for 180 days after the tabling of the final report.
Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
(Motion agreed to.)
