Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would say, as a practitioner, that there are elements of the change in policy that when properly applied are better than the previous process.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The short answer is that the lands that are held up all have what regrettably has become a thorny issue.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For example, in NCN's case, most of the lands with minimal conflicts.... I mean, I'm the TLE adviser for NCN, and they have by far the most complicated of all the selections of any first nation in Manitoba. They've asked us to help stickhandle that process through.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The informal process that your officials have adopted and are working with, we call parcel A and parcel B. In that situation we take a piece of land that includes an identified area that's in conflict. The area might be a former mine against which there is a mining claim or somet

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The quick answer is that we absolutely have the capacity to do that. We could do the comparison. If you're requesting that, we'd be happy to do that. Typically, it takes at least eight years to move a parcel from selection to—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  So we're all into looking at anything that works, and if it doesn't undermine the intent for which the selection was made and so forth, we've all been pretty flexible. Actually, your officials in the region have been reasonably flexible about those kinds of things. The other hang

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that question, and thank you for allowing me to continue with the parliamentary secretary's question. We've all tried to make it work where we can. Even though thorny issues have arisen, they haven't.... As another consequence of the two ministers making a commitme

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  On the specifics of the pre-reserve designation process and the model that you've described, I was trying, with the case example, to understand. But in the existing Indian Act, there is provision under section 36 to designate a piece of land as a special reserve. So there's sta

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The federal consultation historically was non-existent until relatively recently, with the major projects, particularly Wuskwatim, in which there was a joint first nation-crown consultation by the province and Canada. That was the first time a formal—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That was in 2004.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. That was the very first time there was anything that MKO would recognize as a crown-first nation consultation process. I'd like to advise the committee that within months of the Sparrow decision, MKO correctly recognized the significance and requested in April 1991 that the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. MKO represents 30 of the northernmost first nations in Manitoba—65,000 treaty first nation citizens—and as I mentioned earlier, three-quarters of the province, which is basically the entire northern resource area. Historically, there was zero to very

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's fine, Mr. Chair; I understand. As we shared earlier, it's similar to chiefs business. When the chiefs have a meeting that they need to attend to, then we are at their pleasure. We were explaining basically the four elements to moving forward under employment and the proj

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm at your pleasure, Mr. Chair. Thank you. As a preliminary matter, I have several binders of material. I apologize that they are not in both official languages. They are tabbed materials with a fair bit of content that I had wanted to discuss during my presentation today, so I

Public Safety committee  The things we are looking for in terms of restorative and reconciliatory justice systems are not set out in this bill. If there were amendments to the bill that created restorative justice processes and community-driven preventive measures as a primary mechanism of addressing the