Carolyn Bennett at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On February 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.

February 2nd, 2012 / 4 p.m.

Liberal

Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's, ON

Thanks very much.

I think your “Well-trained people are priceless” is a fantastic idea for everybody. I think it's certainly what we've been hearing.

I did want to raise something, however, seeing as the parliamentary secretary mentioned that there had been conversations about this at the crown and first nations gathering. We offer our apologies, because we--members of the opposition, I mean--were not allowed at that gathering or allowed to hear those meetings and those conversations.

I would hope that maybe the chair would find any notes from those meetings to circulate to us, because I think it's very difficult for us to do our work as a committee when our exposure to these sorts of important conversations between the crown and first nations is uneven.

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