Procedure and House Affairs committee  [The witness spoke in Innu-aimun.] [Translation] In my language, I greet everyone present. Thank you for your invitation, which confirms the great importance of dialogue before implementing major projects to benefit the greatest number of people, including First Nations mem

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not to my knowledge, no.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Is the question for Mr. Gros-Louis or me?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Each nation has its own rate of speakers. There are indicators of the vitality of the language for each community, and they don't apply to the entire nation. The Innu nation has nine communities in Quebec and two in Labrador. I would say that in some communities that are remote

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We haven't made that specific request to the government. What is interesting is that you are the ones taking these initiatives. Our organization and the band councils work at the local level to promote the use of the language in the community. To preserve a language, it has to b

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I am going to speak in the Innu-aimun language. We have standardized the writing of the Innu-aimun language in order to develop the corpus. The Innu language consists of three dialects. The Cree language is standardized. However, if we find a Roman alphabet letter that we also r

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Is this a question concerning language or is it a broader question that also has to do with inclusion?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There have to be increasing numbers of small gestures so that it becomes obvious that we are included. The most important thing is really inclusion. We also have to be consulted and respected. There has to be respect for what we are, and especially for how we do things, for our

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My personal point of view on the Indian Act is not limited to the Act. It concerns everything that flows from it, like the system of band councils. It also concerns the relationship with the federal government, which imposes a way of operating on us, of appointing our representa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was waiting for Mr. Gros-Louis to speak.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think I can give you part of the answer. After Confederation, we had to wait 84 years for registered Indians and other indigenous groups in Canada to get the vote. Today, the First Nations peoples don't just vote, they are also engaged in local, territorial, provincial and fe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Reconciliation is important, with the communities' neighbouring towns, precisely in terms of their relations with each other. Those relations is where we could feel a lot of racism and exclusion, and experience occupying the territory without knowing one

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Innu.] [English] Thank you for this invitation to contribute to the process that confirms the great importance of dialogue prior to implementing major projects for the benefit of the greatest number, including members of the First Nations of Quebec. I am

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I am going to move on to my last point. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was created in 2008, we were told its purpose was reconciliation among the former students, their families, their communities and all Canadians. If that is still the case, it has to be

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Kwe Kwe, thank you, Mrs. Gill. It talks about representation from a region in the composition of the board of directors and it compares regions in terms of the abuse that one or another of them suffered or in terms of which of them had the most residential schools in its territ