Public Safety committee  The other important part, though, is this. I mentioned our emphasis on restorative and community-based justice systems. We place a great deal of significance on those initiatives, because within our communities we want to bring victims and offenders face to face to resolve the is

Public Safety committee  Well, as a matter of restitution with a person who they may have offended in some manner in their life...?

Public Safety committee  I do know that the settlement payments can be distributed within the communities to do good things in terms of the purchase of needed hunting and harvesting equipment to improve the lives of individual families. In some cases, that may indirectly improve the lives of persons th

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for the question. As I indicated at the beginning of our comments, the reconciliation between victims, offenders, and communities is a core element of our restorative justice and community-based policing initiatives and our vision for our policing and justice

Public Safety committee  The apology was extremely important. During the apology itself, our boardroom in Thompson was absolutely packed. There were first nations citizens from our communities and leaders and technicians from the various groups who joined us in the Grand Chief Francis Flett memorial boar

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I apologize if I've been coming in and out. I don't have the video feed from your end, so I thought it was not working. Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear. Would you like me to make my comments at this time?

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I have some brief comments to make regarding the bill. Tansi, boozhoo, edlanet'e, and good afternoon, Mr. Chair, members of the committee, and Madam Secretary. On behalf of the northern Manitoba first nations, of which there are 30, and the 65,000 first na