Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Rickford. Again, as the FSIN, I'll say that this isn't our first rodeo when it comes to exploratory processes. In the province of Saskatchewan, we've got the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, which of course is an exploratory process; the Treaty Governa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To get to it then, we cannot have note takers coming to our tables; we have to have decision-makers. If we have decision-makers who are able to sit down respectfully with our chiefs, as they have--and with all due respect to our chiefs who have sat there for a good number of year

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I won't speak for them. I'm just trying to address the question of the exploratory. There are fundamental flaws with that, and it shouldn't be something that is just a waste of your time or ours.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning to all members and of course a special recognition for MP Kelly Block from Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar. Good morning. She got us here. She invited us. So thank you very much. I'm joined by Chief Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier. My n

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Very quickly, I'll state that so many of our young people in Saskatchewan are actually not attaining grade 12, and some as young as 12, 13, and 14 are exiting the education system. Between that age cohort and of course age 29 or so, there is a large gap of