Democratic Institutions  Madam Speaker, it is still clear that the Conservative Party and its members do not really understand how indigenous people are not indigenous Canadians but, in fact, indigenous people of their own nations. The idea of self-determination is something that this Conservative Party

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Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, this summer we saw a record wildfire season raging across the country. I, as Minister of Indigenous Services Canada, worked with first nation leaders all across the country as they did the most unimaginable to protect their communities, with evacuations, people displ

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, it is too bad that the former leader of the opposition did not listen to the Chiefs of Ontario for over a decade as the infrastructure gap grew and grew, as children suffered with discriminatory first nations child welfare, as education rates and levels were underfun

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, we have to ask ourselves how that infrastructure gap got so big, and it was a decade of neglect. In fact, the Leader of the Opposition, on the day of the apology from Prime Minister Harper, said that what people really needed to do was actually get to work and show w

Housing  Mr. Speaker, I share the member opposite's sense of urgency for closing the infrastructure gap in first nations. In 2015, we inherited a situation where no investments had been made in housing. Since 2016, 30,000 homes or renovations had been completed across the nation, with th

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, first of all, they are not “our first people”. They are first nations, which are independent first nations. This government for—

Carbon Pricing  Listen to that, Mr. Speaker. The colonialism from the Conservatives in this place will just not quit. Mr. Speaker, I will say that, on this side, we respect first nations. We know that they are leaders. That is why we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in first nation

Public Accounts committee  That's such a great question. I think there are a couple of different elements of longevity. One is legislation that exists and that sets the Government of Canada on a path of commitment to first nations and, in the area of equity, as I mentioned, equal funding for services for

Public Accounts committee  I'm not able to come back after the vote, but I will obviously be here at your invitation in the future. I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you.

Public Accounts committee  I will turn to the deputy to speak to that—

Public Accounts committee  I'm very fortunate to work very closely with all of the officials at this table, so of course we have extensive conversations about education, about water, about infrastructure and about committee appearances, so—

Public Accounts committee  Yes, of course, and I would like to turn to the deputy to give you some responses on that.

Public Accounts committee  I hold the officials accountable every single day and I do it through honest, open communication and collaboration and, quite frankly, an insistence that we work at the behest of first nations with first nations using a first nations-determined approach. I would say that the dep

Public Accounts committee  Well, listen, this government has invested billions and billions of dollars—in fact, at latest count, somewhere in the range of $8 billion and counting—not just on the infrastructure, as I said, but on the ongoing addressing of long-standing operation deficits, supports for train