Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I've put my self on the English channel so that I can hear. I figured that out.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely, Ms. Idlout. As I said earlier, there have been concrete gestures of reconciliation in the last couple of months—years probably—and we're going to witness that today with the federal budget, with all of the rumours that Indigenous Services Canada will become the weal

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can't hear the interpretation. So I'm going to ask for a translated copy of the member's question. I could answer it in writing. Nakurmiik for asking your questions of us.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Public servants have a number of tools available to work on reconciliation, to rebuild trust, and, most importantly, to enable the communities to develop, in spite of what the Act requires. Sticking to the framework of the Act takes too long. Today, we want fast, concrete actions

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Ms. Romanado, the document I have here is an Elections Canada document. It was translated in collaboration with the Atikamekw nation. So I will be pleased to send a government document, an Elections Canada document in this case, to the clerk.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. In fact, the work of negotiating a regional education agreement between the federal government and the 22 member communities of the First Nations Education Council virtually ended 20 minutes before this meeting started. I hope I am not revealing a scoop, but progress

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If it's the intent of Parliament to provide guidance to Elections Canada to do that, Ms. O'Connell, I would add that, first and foremost, Elections Canada doesn't have the expertise nor the capacity to do that. It's a simple fact of reaching out to our communities. They will te

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Go ahead, Ms. Tshernish.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From the First Nations Education Council's point of view, of the eight nations we represent, six still have fluent speakers in our schools. We do have immersion up to grade 2 for the majority of our schools. Of the two nations that have lost their language, in one of them we're s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The eight nations that are represented by our council are involved in reconciling an education agreement framework that hopefully will be forthcoming. Recognizing our language will be part of the education value-added of the agreement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To my knowledge, we are going to work on safeguarding, protecting, enhancing and defending the rights of our language, whether at the federal and/or provincial level. What we're interested in is to value all of the efforts we're doing to work with our youth to grow in our educati

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll express myself in French. I will need seven minutes, if you'll allow me. Kwe, hello. [Member spoke in Wendat.] [Translation] My name is Denis Gros-Louis. In my language, that means "men who works for freedom". [Member spoke in Wendat.] [Tr