Finance committee  Thank you, Chairman Easter. Let me first acknowledge my fellow indigenous leaders who are on the line today. Thank you very much for all your wisdom and sharing. I do have a question for the chairman, Mr. Easter. I am asking why ITK, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, is not on the cal

Finance committee  Chairman Easter, I would echo that you please follow up with ITK and why they weren't on this call. Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Julian. I'll keep it short. Thank you for inquiring about the Métis. There are over 400,000 of us, so I was hoping somebody would ask a question about the Métis people. Clearly we're not requiring or asking for the military right now. We're cre

Finance committee  First, thank you, Peter, for that question. I want to express again that every time somebody asks a Métis question, we get very excited and very pleased that somebody is thinking about us. Let me start off with the businesses. You heard in my presentation that there are over

Finance committee  If I may, Mr. Chair....

Finance committee  I apologize. I didn't get the name of the person asking the question.

Finance committee  Again, I don't know where you got the 42,000 members. MMF alone has 54,000 voting members 18 and over at the federation, and that's not counting the children. So there are about 100,000 people just in MMF, under our government in Manitoba. Clearly, MNC represents 400,000 people i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me compliment you on pronouncing ITK because I can't say it to my old friend Natan. There are so many different times that I've tried. I want to start off quickly, before I do my presentation, with this. I'm a leader who likes to speak right off the cu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. The first case came into La Loche around April 15 or 17, and when it took off, it took off. However, the reserve next door.... It's connected. It's the same thing across Manitoba with Métis villages. For those of you who do not know the Métis community in western Canada, on

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I can, Mr. Chair, I'll add on to Jaime's question. I was quite surprised by Gary's question because I think it's a wrong approach to the question. First of all, I wanted to commend him personally because he's the only one that raised the Métis issue, the Métis Nation. After

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't see Perry on the screen, so I'll jump ahead of him. There you go, Perry. I have to get ahead of you, man. Anyway, I thank Leah for that question, and let me answer this way: It truly is an important prospect, and I think that is what is shown, again, when I talk about t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have to apologize to my cousins in Quebec. I'm not connected to the translation. Can somebody repeat in English what the question was, please?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I do apologize to Sylvie.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Let me start. Thanks. Nobody has asked that question. From our perspective let me put it this way: from here to eternity probably, because we never got anything. We didn't get one mask. We didn't get one hand sanitizer. We didn't get anything in our Métis communities. As I said,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Bob, for that. Let me say this. From our perspective, testing is clearly—you're absolutely right—one of the keys to solving this or helping to at least curb it in some form or fashion. There's definitely not enough testing taking place across the country. W