Grand Chief Math’ieya Alatini at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

Thank you.

I'll add that I absolutely agree that passing the bill as it appears right now is the right thing to do. I absolutely agree with consultation on the remedies to the discriminatory impacts of the Indian Act.

I'll take it a step further with regard to modern treaty holders. There needs to be discussion about the reconciliation between modern treaty citizenship lists or membership lists versus Indian Act band lists, as well as the reconciling of programs and services that modern treaty holders deliver to their communities through those registry lists.