Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. What I'm saying is that as long as an Indian Act band is operating under the Indian Act they still have the same responsibility as.... Let's be straight. They are federal municipalities. We're talking about the law now. That's what they are; they are no different from any tow

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I said, this is only a beginning.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd love to replace the whole act. If I had it my way, this act would be gone today. The fact of the matter is that we're dealing with a couple of sections. I'm very open. We participated in JMAC and reviewed the whole Indian Act paragraph by paragraph, line by line. But unfortun

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I had my way, I'd say let's burn it, but I don't. I have to be realistic, and I have to realize that change is not going to occur overnight. If we can, get everybody in the room who needs to be there and start looking at this piece of legislation as a whole, as the Liberal Par

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, sir. What I'm saying is that they should have the ability to pass a bylaw without having to go to the minister every time. If they decide that their community is going to be a dry community, it's a matter of their mandating by council and chief through a proper governance str

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll apologize beforehand. I have a slight cold, so if I start coughing, everybody clear the room. You don't want it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Kwey, hello, and bonjour. Good morning, Chair Warkentin and committee members. It's a pleasure to be here on the traditional territory of the Algonquin peoples to speak to you about Bill C-428, the Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act. I am the National Chief of the Congre

Environment committee  We're consistently doing it now. As I said, we have three individuals who are sitting on NACOSAR. One of them is a scientist, Dr. Donna Hurlburt, plus two community people. We also have people sitting on the species at risk committee. We do a lot of consultation with our elders t

Environment committee  It's going to have to be. I mean, you've got to find a balance. You can't go from one extreme to another. There's got to be a balance. We can't expect people today to be unemployed or to live in poverty. We've already got enough people in poverty. We have to find a way we can wor

Environment committee  As a matter of fact, we are, throughout this region and in New Brunswick. I was part of the conservation board, as the chief in New Brunswick, before I went to Ottawa. I did work with the committee to save Musquash and to put into place the management area for fisheries in the Ba

Environment committee  Well, the Aichi targets obviously have to be part of the conservation plan. Now, whether you can pinpoint them to a definitive year or date is another question. Unfortunately, there are a lot of things people have no control over, and that's life in general. And as we've all seen

Environment committee  Unfortunately, right now something like that would not work, for the simple fact that most of our lands that are under the control of aboriginal peoples are under the Indian Act. Therefore, any additions to the lands would have to be approved by the minister in order to purchase

Environment committee  Good afternoon, Chair and members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. It's an honour to be here on the territory of the Mi'kmaq peoples, my people, to speak to you concerning the national conservation plan. I'm a Mi'kmaq wom

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, as Dwight stated in his brief, was instrumental.... Our former leader, Harry Daniels, who was part of the constitutional talks and who negotiated section 35 into the Canadian Constitution Act, which said the aboriginal peoples of Canada are the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe that if you go back to RCAP you'll see that there were some very good suggestions in RCAP as to how to deal with this, because this issue was brought up during the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People. There were extensive consultations done right across Canada. They s