Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee on Oct. 3rd, 2022

Evidence of meeting #31 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was water.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Arctic Sovereignty, Security and Emergency Preparedness of Indigenous Peoples

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Meeka Atagootak Elder, Hamlet of Pond Inlet, As an Individual

Merrill Harris Reeve, Municipal District of Taber

Kurt Eby Director, Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations, Pelmorex Corp

Sarah Sunday-Diabo Chief, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne

Lucas King Director, Territorial Planning Unit, Grand Council Treaty No. 3

Dwayne Thomas Chief, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne

Clerk of the Committee Ms. Vanessa Davies

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau

I don't think we're going to get them before Thursday. Remember that they have to be bilingual, and the inputs will come over the course of the next few weeks. If you're talking about potential changes to Bill C-29, we didn't decide when those had to come.

1 p.m.

The Clerk

I circulated the email.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau

I read the email from the clerk. There's an email from the clerk. It has a very good little three-minute video that I encourage everybody to go through, because it spells out how a committee deals with legislation at committee stage. It gives very good advice on the process by which we get to the point where we go through clause-by-clause study of the proposed changes. I'm sure you're very familiar with that.

1 p.m.

Liberal

Vance Badawey Liberal Niagara Centre, ON

I want to be clear, Mr. Chairman. All I'm looking for is the amended version of Bill C-29. That's all I'm looking for.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau

That may not come. At the moment, there is no specific....

1 p.m.

The Clerk

Mr. Chair, the only thing that I circulated was the order of reference that came from Journals. That's all I have.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau

It doesn't spell it out. I encourage people who know what changes they may wish to make to Bill C-29 to go through that process that's described in the email as quickly as possible, so that they can be looked at, we can find out if they're allowable and in which form they will be, and then they can be translated and distributed.

That's the process. Is that okay?

1 p.m.

The Clerk

Thank you.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau

Very good.

Are you happy, Mr. Badawey? Very good.

Everything has to happen yesterday. I know, I know.

With that, thank you very much to everybody on the panel—

Go ahead, sir.

1 p.m.

Chief, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne

Chief Dwayne Thomas

Mr. Chairman, I just want to extend an invitation to anybody who would like to come and visit our reservation. Chief Diabo and I are willing hosts and tour guides.

October 3rd, 2022 / 1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Marc Garneau

That's a very kind invitation. Thank you very much, Chief Thomas and Chief Diabo.

It sounds like a full day, because we will have to go to a lot of countries and a lot of places.

Thank you.

The meeting is adjourned.