Human Resources Committee on Nov. 19th, 2020

[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.

[Leah Gazan, NDP, Winnipeg Centre, MB]

Thank you very much.

[Arlene Hache]

Thank you.

[Leah Gazan, NDP, Winnipeg Centre, MB]

How much time do I have, Chair?

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

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

[Leah Gazan, NDP, Winnipeg Centre, MB]

Can I please put the same question to Chief Haymond?

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Absolutely.

Chief, the last word goes to you.

[Chief Lance Haymond]

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

[Leah Gazan, NDP, Winnipeg Centre, MB]

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

[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.

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Thank you very much, Ms. Gazan.

Thank you, Chief.

[Leah Gazan, NDP, Winnipeg Centre, MB]

Thank you.

[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.