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Evidence of meeting #4 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was commission.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #4 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was commission.
A recording is available from Parliament.
10:30 a.m.
Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
No. There are some who we're seconding, including me. I came from INAC on a secondment basis, but when we have our staffing authorities, we'll either hire them or they'll go back. There will be different arrangements in place for hiring staff.
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NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
So in terms of mandate and values and work performance, I assume somebody is going to assess the work performance of the department. It's the commissioners who will do that rather than INAC?
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NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
With that reporting relationship through INAC, if you produce a report that INAC doesn't like, do you still get to put the report to Parliament without INAC changing it?
10:30 a.m.
Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
For reporting to Parliament, again, it's through the minister.
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NDP
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NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
What about the survivors' input into the selection of commissioners?
10:30 a.m.
Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
I don't know.
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NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
So we would again need to have people contact Justice Iacobucci.
How about the selection process for the Indian residential school survivor committee? It says here that over the course of the next few months the secretariat will conclude the selection process, so I assume the selection process is already under way.
10:30 a.m.
Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Yes. There was a process through which all the parties to the settlement agreement met, and they came up with a list of nine or ten names. There needs to be ten in total, and the federal government will appoint those named after consulting with the Assembly of First Nations.
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NDP
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Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
All of the parties have selected the names.
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NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
When you're saying “all of the parties”, who are all of the parties?
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Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
I mean the parties to the settlement agreement. Do you want me to list them?
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Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
They are the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapirisat, the churches, and representatives for the survivors.
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NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
They meet, they review this list, and they make recommendations. Then the government will decide whether to accept those recommendations.
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Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
That's after consulting with the Assembly of First Nations.
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NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
So right now, if people want to be part of that Indian residential school survivor committee, to be part of that process, who do they contact? It seems to me--and we talked about cultural appropriateness--this body should have a significant role in advising the commissioners and the secretariat.
10:30 a.m.
Acting Executive Director, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The opportunity for selecting names has concluded, although if they're interested in participating in the future they could send their names to us, to the secretariat. They could go online and do that, just in case there are vacancies in the future.