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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 31
 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
 

The Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development met at 9:10 a.m. this day, in Room 269, West Block, the Chair, Colin Mayes, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Harold Albrecht, Rod Bruinooge, Jean Crowder, Nancy Karetak-Lindell, Marc Lemay, Yvon Lévesque, Colin Mayes, Gary Merasty, Hon. Anita Neville, Todd Norman Russell and Brian Storseth.

 

Associate Members present: Roger Valley.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Mary Hurley, Analyst; Marlisa Tiedemann, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: Pikangikum First Nation: Charlene Desrochers, Member, Constance Lake First Nation; Joseph Eliot Magnet, Barrister.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee resumed its consideration of circumstances faced by the Pikangikum First Nation.
 

The witnesses made a statements and answered questions.

 

At 10:00 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 10:07 a.m., the sitting resumed in camera.

 
The Committee proceeded to the consideration of matters related to Committee business.
 

It was agreed, — That the Chair write the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development asking him to take immediate action based on the information he will have received following the visit by Department Officials planned for December 13 to Pikangikum and that the Committee be kept informed.

 

It was agreed, — That the Chair thank Chief Charlie Pascal of the Pikangikum First Nation for the invitation to visit his community and inform him that the Committee will ask the Minister to take immediate action based on the information he will have received following the visit by Department Officials planned for December 13 to Pikangikum and that the Committee be kept informed and that the Committee will reexamine the invitation to visit his community upon return of the House in 2007.

 

At 11:01 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Roger Préfontaine
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
2006/12/13 3:25 p.m.