Justice committee  Let met state initially that the Canadian Human Rights Commission exists to protect individuals from discrimination and to ensure that equality and dignity are available to every individual. This mandate flows from international law, from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and o

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. I am pleased to have received the invitation of the committee to contribute to your review of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the application and interpretation of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Just to add to that, and thank you for that question, you've raised a key point, and it's going to be there whether or not there's that time scenario you were speaking of. What you were talking about is if we go in to assess impacts and people come forward to talk abo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Commissioner Langtry, who is our champion of this portfolio, is going to respond.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, I will answer in English. For your first question, about whether or not the government has consulted, I'm sorry, sir, that our commission is not in a position to interpret those activities and provide an opinion on that. The duty to consult is a duty of government; it

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I know that's an important question to you; however, it is not part of our responsibility as a commission, and we can't be helpful in providing you with an answer to that question.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, thank you very much. I'm very well aware of our key points; I was just formulating a response to your question. I'd like to speak to the reality, first of point 4, which is the proper funding. It is absolutely correct that because of our own principles of wishing to engage

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I did not understand your first question. Could you repeat, please?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will make a preliminary over-arching answer and then I'm going to ask Commissioner Langtry to go into a little bit more detail. This proposal was raised with us in a meeting and we considered it afterward. One of our concerns is that we have potentially 600 communities with wh

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for your words of welcome. Thank you for the opportunity to appear again before you as you conclude your hearings. We, of course, have been following the hearings very carefully. We've listened and we've learned. And today, before answering your

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  On your premise that the statute is more for individual rights, the statute actually names prohibited grounds of discrimination. It also contains mechanisms that balance collective and individual rights, such as sections 15 and 16, especially section 16, which deals with special

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. To begin with, the consultation process was three years for section 15 of the charter. Secondly, what we're talking about in developing an interpretive provision is not capital “C” consultation as required by the government, but rather the level of dialogue and of edu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Goldberg.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  A considerable amount of research has been done on why people don't come forward. Some people do not come forward because they don't know their rights, or don't know how, or there's no method for how; also, from fear of retaliation, or of not being a team player, if you will—a lo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Oh, absolutely; it's endemic to society. That was a societal comment I was making.