On February 25, 2021, the committee adopted the following motion:

That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee initiate a study of the subject matter of Bill C-15, An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and to make related and consequential amendments to other acts; and that, if the Bill is referred to the committee, all evidence and documentation received in public in relation to the subject-matter study of the Bill be deemed received by the committee in the context of its study of the Bill pursuant to that order of reference.