Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples

Second Session Thirty-seventh Parliament, 2002-03

Chair: The Honourable THELMA J. CHALIFOUX

Tuesday, June 3, 2003
Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Issue No. 17

Sixth and seventh 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:

Tuesday, June 3, 2003

From Tsuu T'ina Nation:

Mr. Jim Big Plume, Lands and Treaty Researcher;

Mr. Ron Maurice, Legal Counsel;

Mr. Gilbert Crowchild, Councillor;

Mr. Stanley Big Plume, Councillor.

From the Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Tribal Government:

Chief Chris Shade;

Mr. Will Long Time Squirell, Council Member.

From Saddle Lake First Nation:

Mr. Eric J. Large, Councillor.

From the Prince Albert Grand Council:

Chief Marcel Head, Chief of Shoal Lake Cree Nation;

Mr. Al Ducharme, Executive Director;

Colleen Youngs, Coordinator and Research Technician, Specific Claims;

Chief Harry Cook, Lac La Ronge Indian Band;

Mr. Charles Whitecap, FN Government Specialist.

Wednesday, June 4, 2003

From the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs:

Chief Stewart Phillip, President.

From the Alliance of Tribal Nations:

Grand Chief Clarence Pennier, Yemal Syiam (President) of the Sto:lo Nation.

From the British Columbia Treaty 8 First Nations:

Chief Roland Willson;

Ms. Deborah Smithson, Research Director.

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)