Bill C-438 An Act to enact the Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights and to make related amendments to other Acts

An Act to enact the Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights and to make related amendments to other Acts FIRST READING, April 5, 2019 Ms. Duncan 421575 SUMMARY This enactment enacts the Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights, which provides that every person residing in Canada has

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madame. My name is Theodore John Merasty. I am from the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, in northeastern Saskatchewan. Our territory encompasses 32,000 square kilometres, eight communities, and over 11,000 band members, and it is a vast untapped territory

Finance committee   that in my city, a huge percentage of the population is urban aboriginal, and there's a great dearth of housing.

The Budget   and 12,000 year ago.” The images of that life are carved in the wall with Inuit people carrying out their hunting traditions. We can go forward, and there are the native people who greeted the Vikings in the year 900 and 1000. We have images in the centre stone of John Cabot holding up

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  ; Lynne Yelich of Saskatchewan; Rick Casson, James Rajotte and Monte Solberg of Alberta; and John Duncan of B.C. We still stay in touch and we will always remain friends. The many Hill staff I have worked with, and this is only some of them, are such great people that I want to name

Canada's Oil and Gas Sector   things: sustained engagement with aboriginal communities to build effective relationships; recognition that aboriginal communities view natural resource development as linked to a broader reconciliation agenda; recognition that support would only come for natural resource development

Aboriginal Cultural Property Repatriation Act   to others and would allow the people who share a common history to have direct input. Bill C-391 speaks to the role of the federal government in repatriation. I would like to point out that the bill no longer includes a definition of what is meant by “aboriginal indigenous cultural

Industry committee  John, thank you for highlighting it. Yes, it was disappointing to provide stats only to 2017, knowing the historic budget was in 2018.

Industry committee   particularly important to the IT sector. That's block one, if you like. Block two is around technology and science. There has been a huge investment in fundamental science of $10 million and Minister Duncan will have an opportunity to speak to you about those investments in program

Aboriginal Cultural Property Repatriation Act  Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise tonight in the House of Commons and contribute my voice to the debate on Bill C-391, an act respecting a national strategy for the repatriation of aboriginal cultural property. I will begin by thanking the sponsor of the bill, the hon

Canadian Heritage committee  , I reported on May 9, 2018 to the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples that in 2015 alone, NAFC friendship centres saw over 2.3 million client contacts, and provided over 1,800 different programs and services in many areas, including language. For example, at First

Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act  Madam Speaker, I would remind the member opposite that this was a great concern of John Diefenbaker, who gave indigenous people the vote. Most of the ugly residential school experiences were under the Liberal government of Mackenzie King. Let us not point fingers when

Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act   with abandoned and derelict vessels. They were in government for 10 years and they left coastal communities vulnerable. The number of derelict and abandoned vessels skyrocketed, with no action from the Harper government. In fact, John Duncan, who at the time was the MP for Vancouver Island

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  , through new horizons for seniors, five organizations in my riding have received over $80,000 in funding, including, among others, the Lower Fraser Valley Aboriginal Society and the Royal Canadian Legion. This is what real change looks like. We also know that no Canadian should have

Accessible Canada Act  Madam Speaker, that was not something I had time to raise in my speech, but the member is exactly right. There were stakeholders at committee who raised this very issue. For example, Mr. Neil Belanger, the executive director of the British Columbia Aboriginal Network