Jaime Battiste at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

February 12th, 2026 / 8:40 a.m.

Liberal

Jaime Battiste Liberal Cape Breton—Canso—Antigonish, NS

Thank you.

Grand Chief Wilson, do you think we should have a solution that comes from the grassroots first nations communities in terms of how we replace subsections 6(1) and 6(2) with something that's created by the first nations themselves? Do you feel that would be an important process that we could undertake, or do you believe we should apply the Senate's solution to every single community, whether they like it or not?

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