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

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

Aboriginal Cultural Property Repatriation Act   people to the Winter Olympics being organized by interests who are still actively seeking to destroy the Indian people seems painfully obvious.” In response, Duncan Cameron, director of the Glenbow Museum, wrote, “I believe that it is this Olympic connection which will draw attention

Environment committee  I'm speaking now, John. Give me the courtesy of articulating what is in the hearts of many of us at this table, and that is about the sham of a process that we're going through. We have many more amendments—you can see them right here—that we still have to go through

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

Industry committee  Welcome, everybody, to meeting 104 of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. Today, pursuant to Standing Order 81(4), we will be reviewing the main estimates related to the Department of Industry. Today we have with us the Honourable Kirsty Duncan

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

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

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

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

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 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

British Home Child Day   of boys and girls arrived on Vancouver Island at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, near Duncan, B.C. Canadians were falsely led to believe these children were orphans who had been living on the streets of British cities, but in truth only 2% were. Most of the children came