Government Expenditures  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister committed his government three times to cutting the budget. We have asked the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development where he is going to cut and we have not had an answer. We have asked the Minister of Industry twice so we

Métis Society Of Saskatchewan  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Could the minister confirm that the Deloitte & Touche draft audit of the Métis Society of Saskatchewan commissioned by the federal government and the Government of Saskatchewan has

Métis Society Of Saskatchewan  Mr. Speaker, my supplementary question is for the Prime Minister. Rank and file Métis are concerned about the lack of accountability of funding arrangements by the department of Indian affairs and how it may affect Métis credibility and future funding. Could the Prime Minister

Indian Affairs  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Justice. The Deloitte and Touche draft audit of the Métis Society of Saskatchewan identified that minutes of the society's meetings were tampered with. Métis society members have been denied access to this draft audit. Can the min

Indian Affairs  Mr. Speaker, my supplementary is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Core funding for the Métis Society of Saskatchewan is provided by the minister's department. Can he assure the House that no fiscal 1994-95 funds will be released to the society until the investigation is co

Sahtu Dene And Metis Land Claim Settlement Act  Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to address this House today to inform you that I and the party which I represent, the Bloc Quebecois, will be very pleased to support Bill C-16 for several reasons. I would like to tell you that since I became Indian Affairs critic for the Official

Sahtu Dene And Metis Land Claim Settlement Act   within the Northwest Territories. The fact of the matter is that most of these functions are now being administered by existing instrumentalities of either the Government of the Northwest Territories or the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. There is no obvious consideration

First Nations  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. The wife of the chair of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development has been hired by a federally funded Assembly of First Nations as a media relations officer. My colleague from the Official

Canada Petroleum Resources Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise to address the House on Bill C-25, an act to amend the Canada Petroleum Resources Act. I want to join my colleague, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, in urging hon. members to support this minor administrative change to the act. Bill

Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act   ahead too quickly on this and the House should take the opportunity to look at the bill and examine it in great detail. In the deliberations the government and the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development have had with the aboriginals in the development of this bill I

Sahtu Dene And Metis Land Claim Settlement Act   is based on a false assumption. In March 1993 a document was published by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development entitled "Federal Policy for the Settlement of Native Land Claims". Within that publication there is a glowing observation which states the evolution

Split Lake Cree First Nation Flooded Land Act  Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to speak to Bill C-36, the Split Lake Cree First Nation Flooded Land Act. This legislation comes as a result of a Manitoba hydro project initiated back in the 1940s. This project flooded 11,800 acres of land on five Indian band reserves

Recall Act   Association first raised allegations of unfair treatment in the early 1980s Veterans Affairs Canada asked it to bring forward any case in which a veteran believed that unfair discriminatory treatment had been received. Several hundred cases have been put forward since that time. All were

Excise Tax Act  . Yesterday we were trying to point that out to the members over there and they invoked closure so we could not get our point across. However, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development introduced a law that says natives in this country, in Yukon and so on, under

Canada Petroleum Resources Act  Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to speak in favour of this important bill. While it represents a small amendment, Bill C-25 will have important ramifications for Norman Wells and other northern communities. As my colleague, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern