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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you. This is a little bit of a different forum for me, so I'm just getting used to it. I'm calling in from Calgary, Alberta. My name is Drew Lafond. I am a member of the Indigenous Bar Association. The Indigenous Bar Association in Canada is a not-for-profit organization
June 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Drew Lafond
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Okay, excellent. Put simply, the proposed paragraph 6(1)(a) “all-the-way” approach is certainly attractive. We think that it could beneficial. Unfortunately, we didn't have the opportunity to contribute to the drafting of that section, and when we did ultimately see Bill S-3 app
June 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Drew Lafond
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee What's responsible is subjective assessment. In our view, what problems would arise in connection with the 6(1)(a) “all-the-way” approach.... You'll recall that during our previous submissions to the Senate in May—and this was identified in our written submissions as well—we iden
June 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Drew Lafond
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Are you referring to the provisions in paragraph 6(1)(c.01) all the way to paragraph 6(1)(c.4)?
June 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Drew Lafond
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The draft amendments that we proposed and circulated to the members of the Senate committee simply provided that if you had been born post-1951 but prior to 1985, you would be entitled to paragraph 6(1)(a) status. That essentially left the door open for anyone who was born prior
June 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Drew Lafond
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee During the prior round of amendments before Senator McPhedran's amendment, we had been dealing with a response to the decision in Descheneaux, and the idea had been to identify instances of sex discrimination that had arisen post-1951 as a result of the 1951 legislation. We were
June 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Drew Lafond
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Following the dialogue on the clause-by-clause reading, what we hadn't realized is that the vast majority of the senators were actually in favour of going back to that previous era, prior to 1951, which in our view, we have to admit—I mean, we'll submit that—we thought was unatta
June 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Drew Lafond