Jaime Battiste at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On June 5th, 2020. See this statement in context.

June 5th, 2020 / 12:10 p.m.

Liberal

Jaime Battiste Liberal Sydney—Victoria, NS

I accept your apology and I know you didn't mean to do it. You're doing a great job as chair, Bob.

I come to you from the Eskasoni reserve, the largest Mi'kmaq community. We have close to 5,000 people. I'd say that the majority of the people in this community don't see sections 87 and 89 of the Indian Act as negative things.

Manny, I would just like you to elaborate a little bit on the tax rating that you talked about and how that helps the indigenous economic recovery strategy. Can you speak to those points a bit?

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