Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1   such a fundamental role. I also want to take this opportunity to express my deep condolences to a former member of this House, John Duncan, who used to represent a large of my part riding, who recently lost his wife, Donna Richardson Duncan. We may not have always seen eye to eye in terms

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My son is a physician in B.C. The population of the community is about 1,800. They have a small hospital. They have 10 eldercare beds. One of the thoughts we have is, why not have hub models, where at least the elders can be in a native setting, in a native community, where

Canadian Armed Forces  , last month I was privileged to spend five days travelling from St. John's to Iqaluit on board the HMCS Charlottetown as part of the Canadian leaders at sea program. Amidst waters rough and still, I experienced demonstrations and training exercises alongside Canada's amazingly brave

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   by accident, 10 days down the road, that the local authorities had asked the RCMP to go and give a fire emergency notice around all the non-native communities surrounding our reserve, but we were left out of the loop. I happened to go down to our gas station. There were six RCMP

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   mandate—per subsection 22.2.4, article f) on the involvement of the Cree people in the application of this regime—is to protect “the rights and interests of non-Native people, whatever they may be”. You have Cree representatives defending the rights of non-native people in our

Business of Supply   the Native Women's Association, to be here in the chamber when that apology was delivered, and to respond. As Senator Murray Sinclair reminds us, the Pope has apologized for past abuses in Ireland and in South America. Certainly Canada's aboriginal peoples have long awaited this overdue

Canadian Heritage committee   the building of the railway and the first francophone prime minister. It said nothing about their respective roles in residential schools. John A. Macdonald was an enthusiastic endorser of them, and hired Duncan Campbell Scott; Laurier was prime minister at the time when Dr. Bryce's reforms

Indigenous Peoples and Canada's Justice System  , we worked with the former aboriginal affairs minister, John Duncan, for two to three years in our city, and the Whitecap Dakota First Nation. The graduation rates for indigenous students in this country are deplorable. What are we going to do? There are two things we can do. We

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Saganash. Yes, we do have fire prevention programs. We have a fire prevention officer in our community, Mr. John Sanipass, who regrets he couldn't be here today. We can't just give them a pamphlet, because the first language is aboriginal, Cree. All the stuff

Donna Richardson  Mr. Speaker, today I want to pay my respects to a special friend who lost her life last week after a four-year battle with cancer. Donna Richardson was known to many of us on Parliament Hill not only as the wife of our former parliamentary colleague John Duncan, but for her

Business of Supply   Commission. Duncan Campbell Scott articulated the policy: I want to get rid of the Indian problem....That is my whole point. Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic, and there is no Indian question

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   to indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, this very important cycle of tradition and teachings has been broken by residential schools, beginning in the early 20th century, and by the sixties scoop, during which children were taken from their families and placed with non-native foster families

Federal Sustainable Development Act   of Berthier—Maskinongé recently. He says climate change could affect wine production in Quebec because of a vine-destroying insect called phylloxera native to France and Europe. Phylloxera cannot survive our winters, but that could change as our winters warm and we get periods of milder

Environment committee   jurisdiction. I think that's where I will focus. John Konovsky is here with me, and he will speak to some of the detail. He's better at it than I am. When you think about indigenous jurisdiction, I know right away when I look at all of you here that all sorts of red flags are going to go

Fisheries committee  Fairly simply they take native salmon, in this case chum salmon native to the area, the rivers and creeks where they originally spawned, and they take the eggs and implant them into every river and creek that they want those fish to return to. When the salmon get to a certain