Status of Women committee  I am Jo-Ann Greene, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

Status of Women committee  The one about my community…? I'm not sure…related to the emergency protection orders?

Status of Women committee  Through the emergency protection orders, if you don't have permission of the applicant, you can seek permission to apply for an emergency protection order on behalf of someone else. The court can grant that permission. In that instance, the daughter of the woman, fearing that som

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, to understand the difference, those first nations that are choosing to go under the FNLM are choosing to opt out of the Indian Act, with about 34 provisions related to land management that currently would apply to them. Under Bill S-2, they don't have to do that. Th

Status of Women committee  Certainly. I'll speak to that, Madam Chair. One of the things I know my colleague has mentioned, but I want to reiterate, is that the bill is to address a gap in protections and rights for women, children, and families living on reserve. It only applies to those first nations th

Status of Women committee  Yes, before it was a double majority required. We were told and we heard that it was—

Status of Women committee  —onerous and that most first nations felt they couldn't meet that high a standard. So now it's just a set participation rate of 25% of the eligible voters who are over the age of 18 and are community members, and that's to include on- and off-reserve members. It was requested so

Status of Women committee  I do know there are some areas in programming that help to address those situations. As you've mentioned, there is funding for emergency protection orders, and there is the family violence prevention program. There's an initiative that helps in instances of divorce and there is o

Status of Women committee  We don't necessarily have any statistics. The First Nations Land Management Act does not require that a copy of the matrimonial real property law be provided to the minister. But in conversations with the First Nations Land Management Resource Centre, we have been assured that,

Status of Women committee  I believe there is a complex issue related to balancing the collective interests and providing basic rights and protections to individuals on reserve. We have been very careful, as one of the recommendations by the ministerial representative, to try to balance that in the legisla

Status of Women committee  Yes, just the Northwest Territories has—

Status of Women committee  I was just going to say it's intended that, through the regulations, they're able to apply by fax, e-mail, and telephone. They can be replied to using those same methods, and they can be granted using the same methods.

Status of Women committee  All together, there were actually more like 64, but specific to the legislative solutions or contents of the legislation, there were 33 from the analysis, and 30 of those are represented. For instance, the best interest of the child is considered. That's also in the preamble, and

Status of Women committee  Yes, and the three that were spoken to earlier were addressed in other manners.

Status of Women committee  Yes.