Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. I think we have those in fair detail, and we also have them costed out in a series of reports called the Wen:de reports that were tabled in 2005.

Finance committee  Thank you, Minister. I can advise you that the tribunal ordered the federal government to immediately cease the discrimination and immediately cease its narrow implementation of something called Jordan's principle. Since the ruling, the government has until February 22 to file

Finance committee  On January 26, 2016, the conscience of the nation was shaken. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a ruling saying that the federal government of Canada was racially discriminating against 163,000 innocent children in this country by providing them fewer child and family ser

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  There's a great book called, The Spirit Level. I recommend it to you all. It shows that if you want to be a government where there are high trust levels, low incarceration rates, high education rates, and long life spans, you need to do only one thing and that is to reduce the in

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I would equate it to the analogy of fighting a fire versus preventing a fire. Right now you have a generation of babies and young children out there. You have the opportunity as parliamentarians to make a substantial difference. It's not only about whether or not they experienc

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Yes. It would be the equivalent of just funding hospitals and not funding the flu shot. It doesn't make any sense. Let's get out there and provide both. As you invest in the early years, you're going to need less of those acute and very expensive interventions that come in adulth

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  When it comes to first nations children, we've identified through our work some examples of things that could be done right now. We'd be happy to provide them to the committee, at their discretion. They not only show short-term benefits for first nations families, but also set in

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Right, and I would say fulsome action, courageous action. I know it's difficult when you're dealing with budget restraints, but I just want to bring this to your awareness. There was a great study by the KidsRights foundation, which is the organization that works with Nobel lau

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I would say yes, but I would also say that shouldn't preclude any investigation of other alternatives or development of a rather organized strategy. You can get rather piecemeal, I guess, with shooting in various recommendations. It's very important to look across these existing

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  We need equitable funding in child welfare. There's an opportunity before us with Premier Selinger putting on the next agenda of the Council of the Federation, the request that first nations child welfare be put at the top of the agenda, which is great news. It provides a politic

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  We hear lots of stories that show that children who are maltreated themselves are more likely to end up in violent situations as adults. We also have the situation where women who are in domestic violence situations in their families are in a difficult situation, because child we

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and committee members. It's an honour to be here on Algonquin Nation lands and also to talk about such an important topic. As parliamentarians and as citizens, we have so many challenges before us in this wonderful country, and some of them feel

Status of Women committee  Thank you, member. It's a very important question. It's one that the Parliamentary Budget Officer asked when he did his review of first nations schools. So we'll make it a particular concern of ours following on your colleague's mention. We'll send you a copy of that report. Wh

Status of Women committee  Shannen Koostachin said that she saw children as young as grade 5 dropping out because they had no hope. I think if you were to imagine you or your family growing up in a community where people are living in tents, where there's one potable source of water; where you get two bu

Status of Women committee  What we're finding is that when we go across the country and talk to first nations and non-aboriginal kids, first nations kids have dreams of becoming physicians, of becoming business owners, of wanting to be pharmacists, of wanting to be artists. They really do want to make the