Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, because right now, as proposed, it doesn't include our community. It goes back to inclusion. That's about it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would agree with Rosalind Calihoo, to insert the definition of “first nation” in clause 2 of the bill, because it's limited to bands, as defined by the Indian Act, and that excludes our community. So mine is the same as Chief Calihoo's.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I'm Doris McDonald. I'm the vice-president of the Aseniwuche Winewak Nation. Aseniwuche Winewak in Cree means the Rocky Mountain People. Our community emerged as a distinct society in the first two decades of the 1700s when Iroquois men from the Six Nations migrated