Human Resources Committee on Nov. 19th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #5 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was centres.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing

MPs speaking

Sean Casey
Brad Vis
Kate Young
Louise Chabot
Leah Gazan
Rosemarie Falk
Ryan Turnbull
Jamie Schmale
Adam Vaughan
Michael McLeod

Also speaking

Carol Camille  Executive Director, Lillooet Friendship Centre Society
Juliette Nicolet  Policy Director, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Arlene Hache  Community Advocate, As an Individual
Lance Haymond  Kebaowek First Nation, Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

5:40 p.m.

Community Advocate, As an Individual

Arlene Hache

It's resulting in a loss of life and it's preventable. It's just preventable. Indigenous women I know have solutions to fix that. If the governments could get out of the way and resource indigenous women, we wouldn't be sitting here today.

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NDP

Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB

Thank you very much.

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Community Advocate, As an Individual

Arlene Hache

Thank you.

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NDP

Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB

How much time do I have, Chair?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Sean Casey

You have about 20 seconds, so time for one short question.

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NDP

Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB

Can I please put the same question to Chief Haymond?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Sean Casey

Absolutely.

Chief, the last word goes to you.

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Kebaowek First Nation, Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

Chief Lance Haymond

I didn't catch all of the last question. I'm sorry.

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NDP

Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB

Is this history of incremental justice around providing human rights for indigenous peoples now costing lives during COVID?

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Kebaowek First Nation, Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

Chief Lance Haymond

I would tend to agree, absolutely. Because the situation was already bad with overcrowding and having two or three generations living in the same home, since COVID has come into the community, it has most certainly been killing our people.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Sean Casey

Thank you very much, Ms. Gazan.

Thank you, Chief.

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NDP

Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB

Thank you.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Sean Casey

First of all, I'd like to thank both of the witnesses. It's very clear that we have a lot of work to do, and your contributions this evening are significant for us in the course of our deliberations. We very much appreciate your being with us.

To my colleagues and everyone, we're now past the appointed hour, so I'm going to wish you a good evening and a good weekend. We'll see you back here next Tuesday evening.

Thank you very much, everyone.

We are adjourned.