Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think it's ironic that the Liberals initially said they wanted to add witnesses and now they're in support of rejecting the very witnesses they wanted to add: Howard Sapers, the John Howard Society, Aboriginal Legal Services, the Black Legal Action

Public Safety committee   of the Liberal Party members on this committee to knowingly vote to reduce this from six meetings to one meeting? They know full well that they're removing the Elizabeth Fry Societies. It would be impossible for us to hear from the Black Legal Action Centre, Aboriginal Legal Services

Public Safety committee   to other opinions about priority and sequencing. We're not opposed to this study. Mr. Chair, I'm going to move one amendment for now, and that is to add the following witnesses: Howard Sapers, the former correctional investigator for Canada; the John Howard Society of Canada

National Council for Reconciliation Act  , in dealing with the calls to action. Today, we are looking at call to action number 53, which states: We call upon the Parliament of Canada, in consultation and collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to enact legislation to establish a National Council for Reconciliation

Business of Supply  : Metepenagiag, Eel Ground, Esgenoôpetitj and Elsipogtog. One of the proudest moments of my career was to be named the first-ever stand-alone aboriginal affairs minister for the great province of New Brunswick. It was an honour and a privilege to work with the 15 first nations chiefs, many

Government Operations committee  I'm afraid that is our time. Perhaps you can get back to it in your next round, Mr. Johns. Mr. Duncan, you have five minutes, please.

Procedure and House Affairs committee   operations, Mr. Johns, who, only a matter of a couple of weeks ago, put into the record in public at the government operations committee, the desire.... We got a letter from Mr. McCauley in his role as chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates

Indian Act   it continues to implement the genocide of indigenous peoples. The Indian Act was established in 1867. John A. Macdonald understood the strength of first nations, Inuit and Métis as a threat to his causes. He had to find a way to weaken them. The Indian Act was the tool to continue

Finance committee   and in bureaucracies. However, we don't have any more time to waste on some of these key issues, such as climate change and all of these pieces. I'm going to come to housing in just a second. Of course, as you well know—I know that some of you have been in municipal leadership, such as MP Duncan

Finance committee   Gabriel Ste-Marie from Joliette, Quebec, and MP Eric Duncan from Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry in Ontario. All the way from the west coast, we have Richard Cannings, who is from the Okanagan in B.C., but Richard lived in St. John's in the 1970s, I understand, for a number of years

Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act   and work ethic of the team have been the backbone of Hibernia’s success for 26 years and will continue into the future. That future is exciting, with the potential for Hibernia to continue production for another 20 years. In Nova Scotia, one of Premier John Hamm’s most notable

Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  . That is enough energy to power 3,750,000 homes. Newfoundland and Labrador has high ambitions as well. During my last visit to St. John's for the Energy NL Conference, there was extensive interest from the private sector, workers and local levels of government in the opportunities presented

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   the approval in principle. We worked with a number of ministers, including Chuck Strahl, John Duncan, Carolyn Bennett and of course Minister Marc Miller. I want to thank them for their support throughout. Negotiations were complete in the summer of 2022 with a self-government agreement. We

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   into social programs. It actually helped with a lot of healing that needed to happen within the aboriginal community in Australia. They saw that there was a huge return on investment for those who were managing indigenous protected areas. I'll stop talking now. I would love to get your

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'm with the Aboriginal Women's Action Network. It is 26 years old, and it is a feminist group of indigenous women. Up until very recently, we were just a volunteer group with no office and were organizing out of our homes. In our commemoration project, we held