Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Aboriginal Peoples

Issue 20 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate of Thursday, September 25, 2003:

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Robichaud, P.C., seconded by the Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., for the third reading of 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, as amended,

And on the motion in amendment of the Honourable Senator Watt, seconded by the Honourable Senator Gill, that the Bill, as amended, be not now read a third time but that it be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

After debate,

The Honourable Senator Andreychuk moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stratton, that the motion in amendment be amended by deleting all the words after the words "be not now read a third time" and substituting the following therefor:

"but that it be referred back to the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples for the purpose of studying the impact on Bill C-6 of the recent Supreme Court decision recognizing the Metis People as a distinct Aboriginal Nation."

After debate,

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

Paul C. Bélisle

Clerk of the Senate