Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I do. I also worry sometimes about non-derogation clauses within federal legislation, since I don't think it is within the power of Canada to go against international law.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've been working as closely as we can with the Government of Canada to understand the ramifications or the next steps after the very positive and welcome remarks in the United Nations around the adoption, without reservation, of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Pe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The reason we are here today and talking about Bill C-262, the importance of linking international law and its effect, and the obligation of the government of Canada to implement, I believe, goes beyond one government. It is a behaviour that needs to be unlearned, in that there i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it would overlap with a number of the issues we have been advocating for in relation to social inequity in this country, especially in relation to housing, education, health care delivery, or language. There are a number of different areas where we have exhausted almost a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Nakurmiik. Thank you very much. It's good to see all of you. I've become a bit of a regular, and it's always nice to be able to have conversations about important indigenous issues such as Bill C-262. I grew up in an indigenous rights or Inuit rights household. My father went a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I represent four land claim regions.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a fascinating question. I think from the first time that the Inuit met together and mobilized in the early 1970s, there wasn't any preconceived notion of what would happen, or even this idea that there were land claims that were going to happen. This was pre the Calder decis

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Each land claim has different ways in which they've created rules around land tenure. So in the Nunavut case, the Inuit-owned lands are owned by the collective. Individual Inuit do not own individual parcels of land in fee simple. Inuit development corporations or Inuit represent

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Each jurisdiction has a different relationship with Inuit, as per land claim agreements, and it is up to Inuit to decide how to create those partnerships. The federal government has a very clear role in all of this. Its role, its direct relationship with Inuit, is side by side wi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It has been a rocky start, but we are getting there. I think the committee process is now more broadly understood than it was in the beginning. I think the Prime Minister has to own this process in the large sense, but then I think we will also see things like the elimination of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The idea that there is an Inuit democracy and it stands beside the Canadian democracy is still one that we're trying to educate Canadians about, and even to build ourselves. The democracy that we have is founded on land claim agreements and the governance models that we've create

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Very practically, the rights that we exercise as indigenous people in this country, or the rights that we have under land claim agreements, logically flow through all arrangements that we have with provinces, territories, and the federal government. Whether it is procurement poli

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The challenges of renewing a relationship start with not necessarily even knowing what relationship you are in. This is the case with Inuit. Sometimes the well-meaning rhetoric of reconciliation or a renewed relationship extends to the understanding that this government might hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are a long way away from achieving the type of Inuit-specific workforce that we had all imagined would be ushered in by the land claim era. We do have a new level of pride about our identity, about our rights, and about who we are as indigenous peoples within Canada or the wor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, first is an Inuit Nunangat fiscal policy space. Time and time again for Inuit, indigenous budgets, indigenous sections of budgets, or comprehensive allocations for all Canadians don't make it to Inuit Nunangat. There are a number of reasons for this that can be closed by cr