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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I speak as a community chief, and I don't purport to know all there is to know about Bill C-3. What I do know is that there is not enough funding currently to deal with the population we have now, and that there are very basic services for which we have to turn people away and sa

April 20th, 2010Committee meeting

Chief R. Donald Maracle

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Currently there is no mechanism in the funding formulas to address growth. For example, I mentioned that if we have to go to urban-style development, we'll need basic infrastructure, water, sewer, street lighting, roads to build subdivisions, if we are to try to get more people l

April 20th, 2010Committee meeting

Chief R. Donald Maracle

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We believe it will. Mr. Crombie promised the chiefs in 1985. The chiefs at the time requested that there be a financial analysis done on the impact of the legislation on first nations programs and services. It wasn't done. We were promised by Mr. Crombie, who was the Minister o

April 20th, 2010Committee meeting

Chief R. Donald Maracle

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Je m'excuse, Monsieur Lemay. Canada held a limited number of public engagement sessions in limited timeframes as information sessions. The duty to consult and accommodate cannot be delegated to third parties like INAC or AFN. Meaningful consultation must occur with the actual r

April 20th, 2010Committee meeting

Chief R. Donald Maracle

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Karen Campbell handed them out at the beginning of the session.

April 20th, 2010Committee meeting

Chief R. Donald Maracle

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  She:kon sewakwe:kon. Bonjour. Good evening, everyone. We offer our best wishes to the members of this House of Commons committee. I'm here on behalf of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians. I found out on Friday that I was going to be presenting today for the gr

April 20th, 2010Committee meeting

Chief R. Donald Maracle

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're here on behalf of AIAI, which is part of this group, but we're not in the same presentation.

April 20th, 2010Committee meeting

Chief R. Donald Maracle