Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One example, so you'll understand in terms of this scenario, is two simple statistics that I keep in my head all the time. One is about university education. In Atlantic Canada we have over 800 students in universities in Atlantic Canada and across Canada; 75% of them go to Atl

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They're basically allocated based on the policy that was adopted by the community in terms of establishing set priorities, primarily modeled on the E-12 guidelines that were created—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  But if you have more, twice as many, then—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think there has been some analysis done on that. I know the AFN has done an analysis of the impact of capital funding of the last decade, and based on that.... The way you look at it is the pie, and the pie is the same pie. It's getting thinner, basically. We're having more a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As you said, in terms of the substance and the form, we all agree that we have evolved since 1977 in terms of the point communities have reached. But one of the things that are still lacking is the fulfillment of the treaty relationship that was promised to us and the protection

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I agree. I think there are very serious implications, and on the numbers, all you have to do is do the math, do the financial math. It doesn't matter what number you use for basic services, whether it's social, health, housing, education, or just basic fundamental services, if yo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As she said earlier, one of the things is that this problem has persisted over time. The set-up of the way it was exempted originally came from a previous government action that created this scenario. Now we're coming back twenty or thirty years later to try to correct a mistake

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Because of the implications of what could come out of this change, I think it becomes very important to engage all of our people, because every person is going to be impacted one way or another, whether they're a five-year-old or a 70-year-old, whether they're living

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for giving us the time to come. My name is John Paul. I'm the executive director of the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs, and I'm here today with our co-chair, Chief Lawrence Paul, from the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia, to address Bill C-44.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  He's “L”, so I'll go first, as “J”.

Finance committee  It comes down to a fundamental change in how to look at it in terms of where we're going. Our focus is primarily in terms of our rights and our people in creating a future that's viable and not based on a model of poverty. What we're saying is, make the right strategic investment

Finance committee  You can look at the examples in our communities over the last decade. In most of our communities, the issue of matrimonial property is dealt with through the provincial courts in some cases, and whatever the court has said, in a lot of cases, is what the community does.

Finance committee  A lot of communities use the provincial system, but we're also in the process of garnering input from our people in the community over the next couple of months to articulate some of the best ways to handle this for the long term, in dealing with fundamental issues relating to ho

Finance committee  I think the big point in our context in particular, just in terms of adult smoking among our people in Atlantic Canada, is that it's at 64%. That is way higher than anywhere else in the country. Diabetes and those kinds of diseases, in most scenarios, take years and years to impa

Finance committee  Thank you. I'm here on behalf of our 36 Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy chiefs in Atlantic Canada, from the Gaspé of Quebec, and we have representatives of the Passamaquoddy in Maine in the United States. Our focus is trying to get out of poverty and really become players