Right Hon. Brian Mulroney   competition. Brian Mulroney, after listening to experts in 1986 and 1987, decided that it was time to spend some political capital and convince Canadians to do away with the over 100-year-old policy that Sir John A. Macdonald had implemented, the national policy, in order to ensure our

Indigenous Services   in this place to usurp the authority, title and lands of indigenous people right across the country, and then being met by hostile wars as this country travelled west, forcing through its railroad. In the words of Sir John A. MacDonald, he was going to bind this country together with two

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

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

Petitions   lyrics from “Our home and native land” to “Our home on native land”. Canada would therefore honour its moral responsibility and fulfill part of its commitment to the 45th call to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, moving toward reparation by recognizing that indigenous

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

Agriculture committee  They're not native to North America. Back in the day, the natives called them the white man's flies. They brought them over with the early settlements because they couldn't figure out why their fruit trees and whatnot weren't getting pollinated.

Online Streaming Act   in Vancouver, starring Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, with a screenplay by Canadian Paul Wernick, based on a Canadian comic book character. We have Canadian Bacon. Who could forget that? There is John Candy, a legendary Canadian actor, in a story involving Canada. I talked about Margaret

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I would like to apologize to my colleague Mr. Duncan. He has to wait for his turn to speak, but I am very much looking forward to hearing the points he has to make. I would also, in turn, like to congratulate my colleagues Mr. Gerretsen, Ms

Environment committee  No, but I think it's important to look at migratory species in the context of native animals.

Environment committee  I asked my question, just on how migratory species reflect this definition of “native to Canada”, because we have lots of—

National Council for Reconciliation Act   Watt-Cloutier, Okalik Eegeesiak, Dalee Sambo Dorough, Cindy Blackstock, the member for Winnipeg Centre, Justice Murray Sinclair, John Amagoalik, Tagak Curley, former member of Parliament Romeo Saganash, John Borrows, Tracey Lindberg, Duncan McCue, Pam Palmeter and James Eetoolook. I

National Council for Reconciliation Act   not feel represented by such and such organization and that it was another organization that represented them. Take the Native Women's Association of Canada, for example. Half the indigenous population is made up of women or people who identify as female. They should also