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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's not an easy question. I guess I'll just touch on family strength and cultural strength. Again, it comes from my experience. I think my traditional ties to my grandparents were what saved me when I was a kid. All my family grew up on welfare, but family ties—I agree with yo

September 23rd, 2016Committee meeting

David Lawson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we just need the federal government to listen to us a little more. I know that they brought someone up for the summit, but aside from that, they could certainly be more involved. Let's say you give the implementation committee $1 million. You announced $1 million last w

September 23rd, 2016Committee meeting

David Lawson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What I think needs to happen is for us to receive a strong commitment from the federal government to support us. When I was looking at the Resiliency Within action plan last year, I didn't feel any support outside Nunavut. I felt as though we were on our own. Recently the feder

September 23rd, 2016Committee meeting

David Lawson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In regard to policing, I think—from my experience, anyway—that we've done a pretty good job in our limited capacity. We're probably one of the more overworked police divisions in the country, with one of the worst violent-crime rates I've seen at first hand. Not a lot of officers

September 23rd, 2016Committee meeting

David Lawson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll add to that. I'm speaking to my generation and the folks I grew up with. Right now you have the on-the-land program and the kamik-making programs for making sealskin boots, in which folks my age are just learning it because it was lost as we were growing up. Even when we h

September 23rd, 2016Committee meeting

David Lawson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Everyone's going to have a different perspective on it, but the way I look at it is that you have the residential school system, you have my grandparents' generation with the dog slaughter issue, and you have people being colonized and being forced to move into settlements, so wh

September 23rd, 2016Committee meeting

David Lawson