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The Hansard Index is the key to information about what is said by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons during the 35th Parliament, 1st Session. The subject entries will either provide reference to a page number or, a combination of page number followed by the issue sitting number and time checks in the daily Hansard.

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Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Standing Committee

    >>Chair and Vice-Chair, election, Reform Party motions, 14649-51
    >>Chairman, Kirkby, resignation, requesting, 5523
    >>Formerly Indian Affairs and Northern Development Standing Committee, 2047
    >>McLaughlin, membership, challenging legality, voting void, committee report irreceivable, 5522-4, 5582-3
    >>Reports
    >>>First (Sahtu Dene and Métis Land Claim Settlement Act (Bill C-16)), 4907
    >>>Second (Porcupine caribou herd), 5060
    >>>Third (Yukon First Nations Land Claims Settlement Act (Bill C-33)), 5527
    >>>Fourth (Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act (Bill C-34)), 5527
    >>>Fifth (Cessation of rights), g.r., tabled, 7893
    >>>Seventh (Split Lake Cree First Nation Flooded Land Act (Bill C-36)), 6722
    >>>Eighth (Yukon Surface Rights Board Act (Bill C-55)), 7991
    >>>Ninth (Pictou Landing Indian Band Agreement Act (Bill C-60)), 9474
    >>>Tenth (British Columbia Treaty Commission Act (Bill C-107)), 16670
    >>>Eleventh (Co-management regimes), 17669
    >>Subcommittee, travel, authorization, M. (Milliken), agreed to, 11619, 12207
    >>See also Housing--Aboriginal peoples

Aboriginal Awareness Week

    >>Commemorating, S.O. 31, 12836

Aboriginal Economic Development Program

    >>$230 million investment, non-aboriginal small businesses, competitiveness, fairness, 1263
    >>Effectiveness, Auditor General's report, 724, 1158, 1223, 1244, 1249, 1260-1, 2102
    >>>o.q., 105-6
    >>Expenditures, 1175-6, 1249
    >>Industry Department administering, 1260-2, 1264
    >>See also Ontario Métis and Aboriginal Association

Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy see Fisheries--Illegal fishing/poaching; Fisheries, Pacific; Salmon--Pacific fishery, Resource depletion

Aboriginal Fishing Agreements see Fisheries, Pacific

Aboriginal Friendship Centre Program

    >>Culture, preservation, funding, 10529
    >>>S.O. 31, 8167

Aboriginal friendship centres see Aboriginal peoples

Aboriginal Head-Start Program

Aboriginal land claims

Aboriginal languages see Aboriginal peoples

Aboriginal Languages Month

Aboriginal Nurses Day

    >>Tribute, S.O. 31, 12531

Aboriginal offenders see Justice system--Sentencing

Aboriginal peoples

    >>Aboriginal languages
    >>>Preserving, S.O. 31, 2968
    >>>See also Aboriginal Languages Month
    >>Adoption, 7282
    >>Band funding
    >>>Accountability, controls, tightening, o.q., 5576
    >>>Departmental management/Alternative Funding Arrangement, qu., 5589-90
    >>>Financial statements, deficit position, qu., 9696
    >>>Frog Lake reserve, accountability, o.q., 15295
    >>>Misuse, band membership complaints, 5089
    >>>>Maliseet reserve, N.B., RCMP investigation, o.q., 9001
    >>>Overpayments, non-existent natives, Statistics Canada report, o.q., 5575-6, 5663
    >>Band membership question, land claims and self-government issues, relationship, 5257, 5771
    >>>o.q., 1801
    >>Birth rate, 6620
    >>>o.q., 5576, 10268
    >>British Columbia
    >>>Police services, S.O. 31, 9141
    >>>Quality of life, 15623-4
    >>Census surveys, accuracy, o.q., 9533-4
    >>Child care needs see Child care
    >>Commercial fishery activities see Fisheries--Licences
    >>Cultural heritage, 5758-9, 5764-5, 7052
    >>>Quebec, francophones, analogy, 5119
    >>>Reform Party position, 3473-4, 5082-3, 5105, 5280-1, 7052, 7532-3
    >>>Spirituality, importance, 5756
    >>Culture, urban, 6453-4
    >>Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council, police services, S.O. 31, 3152
    >>Dene, northern Canada, inhabiting 36,000 years, 3461
    >>Economic and social conditions, 12815, 13218
    >>>See also Aboriginal peoples--Social conditions
    >>Economic development, 10530-1
    >>Elders see Aboriginal peoples--Trent University
    >>Employment equity, 12974-5, 13026, 15152, 15157-8, 15298-9, 15381-2
    >>Estates, government management, o.q., 1921-2
    >>European settlers, relationship, aboriginal philosophy, 5764-5, 7049, 7052, 7529
    >>Fiduciary rights, petition, 5949
    >>First Nations, terminology, indigenous factor, 5123-4, 5765, 7048-9
    >>Friendship centres
    >>>Funding, S.O. 31, 811, 9141
    >>>See also Aboriginal Friendship Centre Program
    >>Funds, misappropriations, investigations, 5257
    >>>qu., 5066
    >>Government assistance, 606, 2411, 8366-9
    >>Government grants
    >>>17% increase 1994-96, 1765, 1767
    >>>Federal-provincial fiscal arrangements, Quebec, $333 million claim, 12487
    >>Government programs and services, expenditures, accountability, 2102, 3472-3, 13406-8
    >>Grand River Enterprises see Tobacco/cigarettes
    >>Hunting and fishing rights, 1990 Sparrow decision, gun control legislation, impact, 10064-5, 10067-8
    >>Jackhead Band, Man., misspent funding, o.q., 12845
    >>Justice system, 7534
    >>>Petition, 5950
    >>Land claims/self-government, awareness, 5124
    >>Liberal Party election promises, "red book", 12777, 17377-8
    >>Manitoba, Dominican Republic conference, 53 band members attending, o.q., 9420
    >>Moose Jaw, Sask., celebration, July 23-25/93, unpaid bills, resolution, seeking, 5112
    >>>S.O. 31, 4384-5
    >>National holiday, establishing, sacred assembly proposal, government position, o.q., 17582
    >>North of 60, subsistence existence, Chatters characterization, 3433
    >>>Sahtu Dene, inhabiting, 36,000 years, 3435
    >>Northern Cree, 5276
    >>Partnerships, 15614
    >>Pictou Landing Micmac, compensation agreement, 8950-9, 9698-706
    >>>Legislation see Pictou Landing Indian Band Agreement Act (Bill C-60)
    >>Police
    >>>First Nation policing policy, S.O. 31, 12836
    >>>See also Aboriginal peoples--British Columbia--Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council; Quebec--Aboriginal peoples
    >>Quebec see Quebec--Aboriginal peoples
    >>Ramsay, former ombudsman, Alberta Indian Affairs Department, Harold Cardinal, appointing, experience, 3758, 5088-9
    >>Recognition, 11509-17
    >>>Legislation see National Solidarity Day for the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada Act (Bill C-244)
    >>>See also Trent University--Chancellor
    >>Reform Party policy, 17360, 17371-2
    >>>o.q., 11527, 12066-7, 12412-3, 17038
    >>Rich uncle/lazy house analogies, Grubel remarks, 5071-4, 5161, 5274, 5276, 5699, 7526
    >>>o.q., 5160
    >>>S.O. 31, 5150-2, 5205
    >>Rights, 17355, 17393, 17404-6
    >>>Common law concept, 1973 Supreme Court/1979 Federal Court decisions, implications, 3430-1, 5260-1
    >>>Government respecting, 17060
    >>>See also Quebec--Distinct society, Renewal of federalism
    >>Sacred assembly see Sacred assembly
    >>Scott, Mike, position, etc., o.q., 12067
    >>Skills development, assistance, 13218-9
    >>Social conditions, problems, 619, 624-5, 3467-8, 3775, 5105, 5765, 7528, 10584
    >>>o.q., 2044
    >>>Responsibility, shared, 5105
    >>>Youth, crime, relationship, 5445, 5449
    >>>See also Aboriginal peoples--Economic and social conditions
    >>Solvent abuse treatment centres, o.q., 10899
    >>Suicide rate, 11546-7, 15158
    >>>o.q., 10898-9
    >>>See also Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples--Reports, Choosing Life
    >>Training programs, Pathways, 710, 5517, 10528
    >>Treaties, Parliament honouring, petition, 15650
    >>Treaty rights see Quebec--Distinct society, Renewal of federalism
    >>Trent University
    >>>Elders Conference
    >>>>11th annual, hosting, S.O. 31, 2926
    >>>>12th annual, hosting, S.O. 31, 13910
    >>>Native studies, 25th anniversary, honourary degrees, Ernie Benedict, Douglas Cardinal, Rosemarie Kuptana, S.O. 31, 4943
    >>>Nunavut Arctic College, mutual accreditation courses, agreement, S.O. 31, 8628-9
    >>United Nations "We the Peoples" award, James Bay Cree, Walpole Island First Nation, Sanikiluak Inuit community, S.O. 31, 16238-9
    >>Youth see Employment--Youth
    >>See also Canadian Heritage Department; Casinos; Constitutional reform--Aboriginal issues--Regional veto proposal; Cruise missile testing--Northwest Territories; Education; Education, post-secondary; Employment equity; GST; Gun control--Legislation, Bill C-68; Health--Diabetes; Health care; Housing; Indian reserves; Indians; Innu; Inuit; James Bay power project; Kakegamic, Joshua; Literacy--Illiteracy level; Members of Parliament; National Aboriginal Achievement Awards; Oceans--Canadian jurisdiction--Historical role; Odawa Pow Wow; Penitentiaries--Inmates; Penticton Indian Band; Poverty; Quebec; Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995); Ramsay--References; Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples; Small business; Social security system; Swift Current--Maple Creek--Assiniboia constituency; Taxation; Tobacco/cigarette smuggling; Tobacco/cigarettes--Grand River Enterprises; Tuberculosis; Unemployment; Veterans; Veterans' benefits; Vote, right to

Aboriginal self-government