Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The tribunal lays out in its orders very specific measures for the rectifying of the inequalities that it sees as most urgent. Included among those is the provision of mental health services and ensuring that the Department of Indian Affairs is funding on a basis of need. The de

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have not seen any kind of evaluations in terms of its application for children specifically. I will say that on-the-ground reports are that they're providing more culturally based services, but it's important to recall that they don't provide child welfare services and—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, but that's within the restrictive envelope of whatever the federal government would provide in terms of their funding arrangement.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I would say that Wapekeka provides us a good example of a community in a remote area that was doing great work in preventing suicides, but that funding program was cut by Health Canada, and then we saw the resurgence of those risks, and that was their call for funding. There

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know if children are receiving good and appropriate services through telemental health, because my experience in talking to youth in northern communities is that it's not available to them. I don't see that as the exclusive approach, but I think it's one approach, and i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think Jordan's principle is the answer, and that's what the House of Commons passed unanimously in 2007. It simply says that where there is a gap, the government of first contact pays for the service and then works out the jurisdictional issues later. As we know with mental hea

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would recommend that there be an internal review both of INAC and First Nations and Inuit Health Branch in terms of an independent evaluation of their capacity to be able to implement the orders and respond to the many good solutions that have been put forward to them for impro

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. I too recognize the unceded territories of the Algonquin people. My name is Cindy Blackstock. I'm the executive director of the Caring Society. I am also a professor at McGill University. Faced with the tragic headlines of repeated deaths of first nations childre

Finance committee  I think I ended my remarks by saying if you choose not to comply with the law, and if you choose not to eliminate the racial discrimination, then what are the children losing to? According to that report, it's flagpoles and tennis courts. I think we owe children much more than th

Finance committee  In that particular case, a girl required medical treatment so that she could eat and talk without chronic pain. She was assessed by two pediatric specialists who said that it was required. It would have cost $8,000. The Government of Canada refused to pay that, and they've now sp

Finance committee  They cannot. As I said, the burden is on the federal government to prove to the tribunal that it has mitigated the discrimination. Without data, they cannot make that case.

Finance committee  We're very proactive with the minister. We identified the flaws in each of the funding formulas and recommendations from prior reports that would have remediated the most egregious effects of the discrimination. We also provided the minister and the departmental staff with exampl

Finance committee  Good afternoon, members. It's an honour to be here on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Nation and in the presence of the national chief and the other delegates at the table. In 2007 I stood with the Assembly of First Nations and we had to file a human rights complaint agai

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Member, with all due respect, there's never been a time when first nations children have received an equitable education similar to what other Canadians have received. That's never been tried. I'd like to see it. We know from the work of the Martin aboriginal educational initiat

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a good question because within 30 days of filing this case, the previous government cut all of our funding. We receive no government funding. It's funded completely by private donors.