Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First, I'd like to say good morning to everyone. I'm grateful you're here. Chris, I'm supposed to tell you that Richard Kappo said hello. He's in your riding and he wishes he could be here. I'd like to start by reading article 2 of the UN declaration: “Indigenous peoples and

Finance committee  They're actually applied to all first nations across this country, a majority of which are not well-to-do.

Finance committee  Tuition agreements across this province manifest some of the issues that are occurring, because just a certain number of dollars come to first nations in our FTA, the federal transfer agreement. For example, I will get $5,400 per student, but for the tuition 40 kilometres down th

Finance committee  At the start of this year I had a young child with special needs. Last year the parents moved away so that child could access special needs resources at a special school. They've moved back to the community because that's where their family is, and now that child is suffering bec

Finance committee  Definitely so, but not only that. One of the things that happens in this whole process is the inability to really look at the equitable way we can utilize it. I met with the Auditor General in 2007, and it seems that every time there's an issue with first nations and governments

Finance committee  That's exactly true. I'll speak of my first nation because we got a $6 million water treatment facility. My question to the federal government was, why invest that kind of money if it's not feasible to even run it and maintain it? Even with the ability to hire somebody to run it,

Finance committee  Could I just make a closing remark?

Finance committee  We are the only colonized people in the whole world and we need to stop it. Thank you.

Finance committee  Good morning, everyone, and thank you for having us here. I represent 23 first nations communities here in Alberta from Treaty 8. We want to look at a different process for first nations people in our area, and we're hoping the presentation to the finance committee will help u