Environment committee  I'll make the subamendment for her. I would like to replace “minister of Indian and northern development” with “minister of indigenous and northern affairs”.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   Act, we are continuing the approach of the colonizer, so well summed up in this statement by Duncan Campbell Scott, then deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs. He said this in 1920: Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been

Environment committee   northern and first nation housing. There's been a long-standing problem. Essentially, it has been the lowest-cost bid that has won and we have ended up with plywood housing. Have you had a role in saying, and has the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development or whoever

Foreign Affairs  %, putting a $4-billion pulse industry at risk. When will the Prime Minister apologize to the Indian government, because does he know who is paying for these false accusations? Canadian farmers.

Business of Supply   to inform the media that somehow the Jaspal Atwal affair was a rogue conspiracy within the Indian government to make the Prime Minister's trip look bad. That is the basis. It is not about the infomercial that the hon. member just mentioned. Does the hon. member believe the media is more

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  . It was a pilot project put together with funding mostly from Indian Affairs and some funding from CMHC. Then in 2003 we started FNNBOA, the First Nations National Building Officers Association. In the first five years we couldn't spend all of the money you guys gave us in both organizations

Industry committee   by a factor of about seven. We recently took DSL Internet to Kendal, Saskatchewan, a village of 77 people. While Kendal is in the middle of productive farmland, with other towns and villages dotting the highway every 13 kilometres, the biggest town around is Indian Head, with 1,900

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians and Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and the exempt staff are subject to the proactive disclosure. The details of their travel

Indigenous Affairs   for leave to appeal but sent the case back to the B.C. Court of Appeal for re-examination, in light of the recent court ruling of the Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band v. Canada. Later, in July 2013, the B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed that the nations have aboriginal rights

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the Senate bill, Bill S-3amends the Indian Act to eliminate sex-based inequities in registration. Private member's billC-262 is an act to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Truth

Government Operations committee   the benefit of the doubt. There was a silo thing happening before, and now apparently departments are talking. Indian Affairs, Industry Canada, and others are starting to talk and figure out how to move the yardsticks ahead. I don't want to speak for him at all, but what I gather

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   visited Resolute and Grise Fiord as well, where I participated in the unveiling of monuments commemorating the lives and hardships of those who were relocated. Another of our accomplishments is Bill C-3, the Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act. It ensures that eligible

Indian Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General recently stated some program spending of the department of Indian affairs fails to meet strategy objectives, exhibits management inadequacies, lacks appropriate performance and evaluation information and thus impedes accountability. In addition

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think one of those would be to review the B.C. wildfire agreement as well as the B.C. first nations emergency management services agreement with Indian Affairs, and to figure out in some detail on the operational side how to make it work, from the good ideas here in the MOU

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   jurisdiction was introduced in 1983, when Indian Affairs downloaded a lot of the construction practices to first nations. They said, “Here you go. You are now the authority having jurisdiction.” One of the challenges we find is that a lot of the first nations don't really understand what