Jaime Battiste at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On November 28th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 28th, 2023 / 4 p.m.

Liberal

Jaime Battiste Liberal Sydney—Victoria, NS

Mr. Roy, you brought up subsections 6(1) and 6(2) of the Indian Act. Part of the duty of the Crown is to act honourably with indigenous communities in Canada.

Do you think the honourable thing for us to do—and I ask this as a status Indian myself—is to say to Métis and Inuit in Canada, “Since I can't pass down my status in perpetuity, no else should,” or do you think the proper thing is to, instead, figure out how to make first nations able to pass down that status under the Indian Act?

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