Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. Thank you, members of the committee, for allowing me some time to speak on a very important matter that affects our children, our families, our communities and the nation. My name is Jerry Daniels. I'm the grand chief for the Southern Chiefs' Organization: 34 first

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. The ability for a first nation to structure its own laws that will then be recognized by the province and the federal government is something that we've long advocated for. It's a long time coming. We believe that we definitely will be quite capable of ensuring that the str

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we have about 14 in the south.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have 34.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We had conversations. I wouldn't say that we were consulted because I don't think that the threshold in terms of consultation was quite there. I think we had a conversation. I think we've always been proactive in engaging in the discussion around whatever policy is on the agenda

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I'm comfortable in saying that there are enough first nations in southern Manitoba that want to see movement that we can support the bill.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Of course we do. We have to be able to work as collaboratively as possible. When that has been exhausted, however, we have to be able to move on. My hope is that the federal government can intervene in that instance. That's why I asked, long before there was ever any drafted legi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Although we do believe that it would be nice to have that in there, I think it's important that we identify what substantive equality really means. Substantive equality might actually mean that you fund first nations much more than you fund non-first nations because of the equity

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In southern Manitoba we've been challenged with this, not only on CFS but really along many different lines, with the discussion around Treaty 1, Treaty 2, the Dakota governance, Treaty 5, and the already long-established Treaty 3 and Treaty 4. What unites many of us in southern

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The chiefs are the ones who make the decisions. The way we've structured it is very similar. At SCO we have a director of families and a chief of families. We do the same thing with health. We are structuring to do those sorts of things, but we do want to support the treaty gover

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have a restorative justice program at SCO, so we have restorative justice committees in the communities. Actually, I'm heading over to the indigenous justice conference right after this, and we're going to be talking about Southern Chiefs' Organization and the work we're doing

Health committee  Thank you. I would like to start by acknowledging that although we may not be together in the same place for this meeting, we are all on Turtle Island. Indigenous peoples have been on this land since the first sunrise. I want to take a moment to acknowledge our elders, who ar

Health committee  Yes. Just on the health transformation piece, I think that was even prior to COVID-19. I think that's a good thing that the government has done. We've been trying to move as quickly as we can, pursuing the B.C. First Nations Health Authority model where you have first nations bei

Health committee  Thank you, Ms. Ashton. I would just like to state, on the question around the Cuban doctors, that we took a tour to Cuba and asked to have a contingent or a brigade come here to Manitoba. Part of the reasoning behind that was that we had seen a crisis coming. We had already been

Health committee  I think theoretically it works. Practically, I'm not sure how that works. I think when you start getting into the different regions there are problems with coordination. Communication is always a big factor in those kinds of scenarios. In any national strategy there are always go