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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I would like to say that nobody has ever yet asked for my opinion on what I think amendments should be, so I am not yet prepared, but I'm positive we have some that we will certainly look at and be able to forward. On the concept of gradually enforcing human rights, I really str
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Actually, I find this very interesting because I do know a lot about what a consultative process is not or what a bad consultative process is. My mother's experience when she went to court was that our women in our communities had to ride Greyhound buses, they had to bake cookie
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I consider myself a fairly well-educated person. I will have a doctorate in August. It was not until well into my studies that I realized section 67 even existed. Many people do not realize until it affects them personally. So a large portion of our community is that way. You'll
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I'd like to respond to that in conjunction with the previous question. While this notion of a website and all of that is a good start, it's not a dialogue; it's one-sided—a good start, but there needs to be interfaced dialogue. But I'm very glad you picked up on the onus of the g
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Not to my knowledge, but I'm a relatively young person.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Actually, this is a fabulous question, and I would like to assure you, absolutely, every given opportunity I have. But as I mentioned, even though we are a provincial organization overseeing services to over 10,000 aboriginal people, I am a volunteer, and we do not have the funde
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Actually, I appreciate the opportunity, because it's very easy to tell you what the consultative process is not. It is not going out and asking the chiefs, even the regional chiefs or even, with all due respect, President Jacobs or any other president of our PTMAs. It needs to
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I like the way you ask questions; it's like my mother does. She tells me what to say when she asks the question. She knows the answer.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee It makes my job easier. That said, of course we have been fighting for and demanding the repeal of section 67 for a great many years. We are now faced with criticism that now that it's happening we're dragging our heels. That certainly isn't the case. As we said, this has gon
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I want to apologize right off the bat. I have a terrible case of laryngitis and I've been dragged from my sickbed to come here today. That's how committed I am, but I apologize if I'm not as clear as I could otherwise be.
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We do our best. I wanted to briefly start off by letting you know that the Ontario Native Women's Association began back in 1971. This date was actually very historic. If we look back at that era, that was the particular timeframe when aboriginal women across the country were wo
May 15th, 2007Committee meeting
Dawn Harvard