Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples
Issue 1 - First and Second Reports of the Committee
Wednesday, November 24, 1999
The Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples has the honour to table its
FIRST REPORT
Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of such legislation and other matters as were referred to it reports, pursuant to Rule 104 of the Rules, that the expenses incurred by the Committee during the First Session of the Thirty-Sixth Parliament are as follows:
| Professional Services | $380,228.44 |
| Transportation | $59,162.62 |
| Other, Miscellaneous | $1,403.69 |
| Witness Expenses | $140,835.45 |
| Total | $581,630.20 |
During the session, your committee held 59 meetings and examined six bills including Bill C-8, an Act respecting an accord between the Governments of Canada and Yukon Territory relating to the administration and control of legislative jurisdiction in respect of oil and gas; C-6, an Act to provide for an integrated system of land and water management in the Mackenzie Valley, to establish certain boards for that purpose and to make consequential amendments to other Acts; C-39, an Act to amend the Nunavut Act and the Constitution Act, 1867; C-30, an Act respecting the powers of the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia in relation to education; S-14, an Act providing for self-government by the First Nations of Canada; and C-49, an Act providing for the ratification and the bringing into effect of the Framework Agreement on the First Nation Land Management; and a special study on the recommendations of the Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples (Sessional paper 2/35-508.) respecting Aboriginal governance and, in particular, seek the comments of Aboriginal peoples and of other interested parties on:
the new structural relationships required between Aboriginal peoples and the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government and between the various Aboriginal communities themselves;
the mechanisms of implementing such new structural relationships and;
the models of Aboriginal self-government required to respond to the needs of Aboriginal peoples and to complement these new structural relationships.
The committee submitted eight reports.
Respectfully submitted,
Wednesday, December 15, 1999
The Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal peoples has the honour to present its
SECOND REPORT
Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate on Wednesday November 24, 1999 to examine and report on the recommendations of the Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples respecting Aboriginal governance, respectfully requests that it be empowered to engage the services of such counsel and technical, clerical and other personnel as may be necessary, for the purpose of its examination.
The budget was considered by the Standing Senate Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration on Thursday, December 9, 1999. In its Second Report, the Committee recommended that an amount of $14,750 be released for this study. The report was adopted by the Senate on Tuesday, December 14, 1999.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLIE WATT
Chair