Status of Women committee  There were several reports that were actually done in conjunction through the Native Women's Association with Amnesty International. There were actually five key recommendations that do address developing a mechanism to address this kind of discrimination, or address that issue o

Status of Women committee  I come from a rural first nation community. Our nearest transition house is a non-native transition house in Woodstock, which is an hour away from my community. The next one is in Edmundston, which is two hours north. They basically deliver to the francophone community in norther

Status of Women committee  Yes, we do.

Status of Women committee  One of the things I told another colleague is that we need to start to look into our communities. The Sharon McIvor case really looks at ending gender discrimination within the Indian Act. In terms of how to move forward from that, even our national aboriginal organizations have

Status of Women committee  Right now, we are going through the mapping. Our circle has been asked by the Public Service Alliance to do that mapping. One of the studies that just came out was the public service employment equity study. The numbers show that aboriginal women are at 4.3%, I think, in the fede

Status of Women committee  Good morning, ladies. Good morning, Mr. Clarke. Tan Kahk, nil toliwes Tanna Pirie-Wilson. I sit before you firstly as a proud Maliseet first nation youth from Tobique First Nation, two hours north of here. I also sit here as the female representative of the Public Service Al

Status of Women committee  No. I'm not doing my speech. That's why, within the Public Service Alliance national aboriginal peoples circle, we're determined to take the societal condition to the forefront. We're determined to make a difference to the societal condition of aboriginal people through politica