Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples

Second Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2002-03

Chair: The Honourable THELMA J. CHALIFOUX

Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Issue No. 16

Fourth and fifth meetings on: Bill C-6, An Act to establish the Canadian Centre for the Independent Resolution of First Nations Specific Claims to provide for the filing, negotiation and resolution of specific claims and to make related amendments to other Acts

WITNESSES:

May 27 meeting

From the Treaty and Aboriginal Rights Research Centre of Manitoba Inc.:

Chief Morris Shannacappo;

Mr. Ralph Abramson.

From Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak:

Chief Joe Hyslop, Executive Council Member;

Mr. Michael Anderson, Research Director.

From the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations:

Mr. Greg Ahenakew, First Viceo-Chief;

Mr. Jayme Benson.

From the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians:

Grand Chief Chris McCormick;

Ms. Carol Nadjiwon, Researcher.

May 28 meeting

From the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs:

Chief Jean Guy Cimon, Executive Member;

Mr. John G. Paul, Executive Director.

From the Algonquin Nation Secretariat:

Grand Chief Carol McBride;

Mr. Peter Di Gangi, Director.

From Six Nations Council:

Chief Roberta Jamieson;

Mr. David General, Counsellor;

Ms. Cora Davis, Clan Mother Cayuga;

Ms. Jo-Ann Green, Director Lands and Resources.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Thelma J. Chalifoux, Chair

The Honourable Janis G. Johnson, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Austin, P.C., Carney, P.C. *Carstairs, P.C. (or Robichaud, P.C.), Chaput, Christensen, Forrestall, Gill, Léger, *Lynch-Staunton (or Kinsella), Pearson, Sibbeston, Stratton, Tkachuk

*Ex Officio Members

(Quorum 4)