Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Merci, Monsieur Lemay. The first reaction was that this bill is the absolute bare minimum to get by another court decision. That's why in our recommendations we've tried to broaden it to address a number of other court actions ongoing, as past presentations have indicated. We be

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our specific amendments will only address part of the discrimination that's out there. We did not have time to deal with all of it. We are also trying to understand the limitations of the parliamentary process: here's a bill, and what can you do with it? We were looking at ways

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Probably.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we're getting it translated. We didn't have it ready for today, but we will get it to you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The question as I understand it was would we want you to support amendments that would get rid of the inequalities or discrimination against aboriginal women?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In our discussions--and why we were very specific about parts of the proposed legislation put before us--we wanted this discrimination to be addressed now. A lot of these people—especially in regard to the 1951 cut-off date—are elderly. This bill deals with those between 29 and 5

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm on the committee. Yes, it is the summary discussions of our committee that we put before you today. We did present a position paper addressing the bigger issues of citizenship last November, when asked by the government to comment on those. It was passed through our chiefs' c

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Kuk'chem. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for hearing us today. As Grand Chief Phillip has said, I'm from the Cook's Ferry Indian Band, the Nlaka'pamux Nation. Sharon McIvor is from one of the member bands of our nation. So this issue has been near and dear to