Human Resources committee  It was 30% first nations, 5% Métis, and 10% are immigrants and new Canadians.

Human Resources committee  That's why I talk a little bit about documenting. Consultations are pretty fruitless, from my experience, unless people are able to document what's happening in a community. That removes it from the garbage talk that goes on at the upper level. I don't know whether that's the pro

Human Resources committee  I want to quickly point out that right now in Canada there are 9% more aboriginal, Inuit, and Métis children in care than there were during the residential school period. I wanted to raise, in terms of a real solution, something that I found very helpful. Consultation usually mea

Human Resources committee  Thanks for asking that question. The sad truth is we hear about those women often in their death. We had the death of a woman not long ago; her husband killed her. There was a 10-month warrant out for his arrest in a small community where there's no RCMP detachment and nobody bot

Human Resources committee  There are a couple of things that are really interesting about the north. One is that all the benefits from diamonds and all the economic activity in the north actually go to Ottawa first. Not only is the federal government responsible for setting the tone in terms of how Canadia

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for allowing me to participate in this panel. I want to begin by describing who I am and who I work with. I came to Yellowknife in 1974. I was hitchhiking and homeless and I came to Yellowknife, basically trying to escape violence and incest in my own home, a