Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The examination—the small “s” study, if you will—of the issues of housing, family services, and so on are twin-faceted. They stem from policy considerations, which obviously I'm not in a very good position to speak to, and they flow from socio-economic considerations. They may al

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If you're referring to the cases that stood before the Supreme Court of Canada on Haida and Taku, no strict timelines were prescribed by the court. However, there were simply broader guidelines as to how Canada should conduct itself in the context of consultations. In Haida and T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, Haida and Taku were not decisions that dealt with the duties of the Crown in the preparation of legislation. In actuality, we don't have direction yet from the Supreme Court of Canada with respect to any legal duty to consult during, for example, a parliamentary process or