Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 1 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Tuesday, October 29, 2002:

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

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 papers and evidence received and taken on the subject and the work accomplished by the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples during the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament be referred to the Committee; and

That the Committee report to the Senate no later than June 27, 2003.

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate