Status of Women committee We've made the federal government aware of the need to create some options for first nations to go into debt and pay the other partner off. Nobody is disputing that one party is not entitled to a financial settlement.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee The Iroquois Caucus has drafted a law that is under discussion. What we have done in our communities is implemented practical solutions that work. We have a market-based system in housing. Most of the land that homes are built on are under Indian Act certificates of possession. W
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee First of all, when there's family violence on the reserve, usually it's the police who are called, and they decide whether or not there's a level of violence that warrants the laying of charges. Those charges are not heard by the chief and council; they're heard by a court. If a
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee We're usually involved when there's no money to pay the other party off or no alternative place to live. We don't have the resources to address those needs in our communities.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee We don't have adequate policing either.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee First of all, I would like to know whether or not the people who were interviewed had ever lived on a reserve. I don't know whether they canvassed the people who lived on the reserve. Quite often, people who are not living on the reserve have a misunderstanding of what goes on th
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee I've read it and I've been briefed on it.
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee The problem is largely the lack of housing and the chronic underfunding for infrastructure to build homes. People don't have a lot of choices. You can't just go and rent another house somewhere else in the community, because there are over 100 people on a waiting list for housing
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle
Status of Women committee Seken sewahkwekenh. Good morning, everyone. My name is Chief Don Maracle. I am the chief of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte. I concur with what my colleague Chief Montour has said. The Mohawk Nation is part of the Iroquois Confederacy. We're part of the Iroquois Caucus and par
May 7th, 2013Committee meeting
Chief R. Donald Maracle