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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 56
Wednesday, March 17, 1999
The Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development met at 3:40 p.m. this day, in Room 362, East Block, the Vice-Chair, John Finaly, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: John Bryden, John Finlay, Ghislain Fournier, David Iftody, Nancy Karetak-Lindell, Gerald Keddy, Derrek Konrad, Robert D. Nault, Mike Scott and Bryon Wilfert.
Acting Members present: Claude Drouin for Guy St. Julien, Jean Guy Chretien for Claude Bachand.
Other Member present: Ted White
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Mary Hurley and Jill Wherrett, Research Officers.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(3), the Committee commenced consideration of a letter received, Wednesday, March 3, 1999, which reads as follows:
Ms. Christine Fisher
Clerk of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Committee and Northern Development
Dear Ms. Fisher.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(3), a meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs shall be convened within ten sitting days for the purpose of examining the concerns raised by the Caldwell controversy in Ontario.
Sincerely,
Signed:
Mike Scott, M.P.
Derrek Konrad, M.P.
Myron Thompson, M.P.
Claude Bachand, M.P.
And debate arising Thereon.
Mike Scott moved, -That the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development undertake a review of DIAND's proposal to create a new reserve for the Caldwell Band in the Chatham Kent region in southwest Ontario. That the Committee requests that the present moratorium be extended until the Committee completes its review and issues a report.
After debate, the question being put on the motion, it was negatived on a show of hand.
YEAS: 3
NAYS: 5
At 4:25 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Christine Fisher
Clerk of the Committee