Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Another example is fees and services. Right now we're excluded to, in the case of real property tax, just collecting tax. What we're also looking at is imposing fees and charges on provision of local services, including water, sewer and waste management, animal control, and recre

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From our knowledge, all of the individual communities that are involved in taxation, involved in the borrowing pool, support these amendments. They want to get on with the business of getting access to capital and asserting their jurisdiction within their communities. There's no

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the areas that Ernie touched on is that right now, when you have to go to the Governor in Council, that process takes three to six months. Not only are first nations losing money in terms of getting access to the capital, but in our case, all of the communities lose a tax

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I hope that all of you eventually get a copy of the history of the Indian Act, which is an unpublished document outlining the Indian Act's evolution in Canada. When Upper and Lower Canada were looking at dealing with title issues with first nations, there was a decision made in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. My name is Manny Jules and I am the chief commissioner of the First Nations Tax Commission. lt is a pleasure to appear again before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. By our count this is at least the 10th forma

Finance committee  It's one of the two fundamental pillars of a sound economy. If you don't have a real property tax system, which is really by most standards the most accountable form of taxation, and a property regime—those are the two pillars—you can't provide infrastructure as a government; you

Finance committee  It's true with any change. There were concerns in the 1950s that we would become citizens of Canada. There were concerns in the 1980s that we shouldn't be part of the constitutional process. We saw it recently with the Idle No More movement, that there shouldn't be any changes or

Finance committee  Ms. Nash was talking about generational poverty. First nations have had it ever since the introduction of the Indian Act. The federal government owns all Indian reserves, so we don't have the same rights as anyone else in the country. It's only mentally handicapped individuals, m

Finance committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Manny Jules. I am the chief commissioner of the First Nations Tax Commission. I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me to speak on income distribution and disparities in Canada. While I'm here to provide a first nations perspective, it

Finance committee  You know, one of the things that Canadians hold dear to their hearts is individual private property. There's no way we want to jeopardize that. As a matter of fact, we are establishing, through an agreement I have with Thompson Rivers University, various training programs throu

Finance committee  First and foremost, this would have to take place with a vote of the entire community in favour of opting out of the Indian Act. Right now the title is vested in Her Majesty, and therefore the federal government owns Indian reserves. So the land would actually be transferred to t

Finance committee  Let me give you the example of Nisga'a. Nisga'a is the only first nation in the country that has this ability right now. They're going forward with a vote to privatize individual holdings at the end of October, on October 30. It comprises less than one two-thousandths of the enti

Finance committee  Exactly, yes, that's right.

Finance committee  In this particular case, it's in my own home community of Kamloops. There was a 15-year build-out with a 99-year lease. That's the subject property I was referring to.