Public Safety committee  Yes. It's important, too, that the residential school settlement process is court-supervised and subject to court orders approving the settlement agreement; hence its linkage to the way the statute is worded at present. There is a linkage between the flow of those moneys and the

Public Safety committee  Again, I'm not a lawyer and am not providing a legal opinion, but I would say that the settlement agreement and the subsidiary agreements speak for themselves as to the responsibility accepted by the various parties, and the processes that are outlined for addressing those respon

Public Safety committee  Mr. Scarpaleggia, our evidence is dealing expressly with the awards under the Indian residential schools settlement agreement and those awards provided to first nations or aboriginal persons. The example you've given is wholly different in its nature and its source. Victims have

Public Safety committee  We're dealing with a specific set of events that led to specific victimization of specific persons and a settlement agreement that's been approved by at least nine courts. We're dealing with a very large set of effects that has, regrettably, the effect of dominating much of our i

Public Safety committee  Let me say that, as I mentioned, our Criminal Code of course reflects that element of that legacy in paragraph 718.2(e), the requirement for what's become known as Gladue reports. The word “aboriginal” appears once in the Criminal Code, and it's in that provision that it does. Se

Public Safety committee  As we've indicated, the lack of any exemption would be viewed as inappropriate and contrary to the intent of the apology and the objectives of the Indian residential school settlement. The persons who we've spoken to about the bill were uniform and swift in their reaction to the

Public Safety committee  There's a number of ideas there. I appreciate and thank you for your comments and for describing it as an open-ended question. The safety and security of our families are uppermost in the minds of our communities, particularly as it is a reflection of the customary law that has

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

Public Safety committee  Yes, using a Cree term, it's Kwayaskonikiwin. It means achieving balance. It means setting things right. When there's a disturbance in a person's life or in the community, the restorative justice programs and the community justice persons in our communities feel that it's extre

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

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  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  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