Anita Neville at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On February 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.

February 15th, 2011 / 10 a.m.

Liberal

Anita Neville Liberal Winnipeg South Centre, MB

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you all for coming, and a particular welcome to the Manitoba delegation.

I'm sitting here actually somewhat in shock as I'm listening to your presentations this morning. I'm not saying this in a partisan way at all. I'm sitting here somewhat amazed at what appears to be, for at least two of the jurisdictions, a real lack of consultation with the communities and INAC.

It seems to be a top-down or an INAC-directed approach. I'm sitting here and thinking what's made Manitoba different, and to some extent, Ms. Loeppky, you've talked about the aboriginal justice inquiry, which we all lived through one way or another.

Let me just ask, has any research been done on the enhanced research model, or has it been put into place on speculation? Has there been any significant research done?

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