Jaime Battiste at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On October 19th, 2023. See this statement in context.

October 19th, 2023 / 4:15 p.m.

Liberal

Jaime Battiste Liberal Sydney—Victoria, NS

Thank you, Mr. Augustine.

I heard both you and Mr. Marshall talk about the importance of land. We heard a lot of testimony on land back that talked about land differently than as property, but more or less as an equal partner, because we have a connection to it. I think you said that we belong to the land; the land does not belong to us.

Mr. Marshall, can you talk a little bit about netukulimk, the Mi'kmaq concept of the responsibility to that land and what that means to the Mi'kmaq?

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