Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, that is our recommendation, to remove that clause. What we heard when we did our preliminary engagement sessions was that this is a breach of human rights. It is a human right to have your identity. Therefore, if your human right has been breached, you have a right to be mad

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, in fact, we do mean 18 to 24 months. NWAC has networks across the country. We have PTMAs. We've done extensive consultation before, and we believe that it could be done in that amount of time. Basically, this is not a new question. The Indian Act has been there for a very

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We think it would take about 18 to 24 months for a full consultation at the grassroots level, throughout the communities and throughout Canada.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have engaged in a very high level consultation across Canada, with NWAC's PTMAs. It was a very short consultation, approximately over a 30-day period, so it was very limited, but very high level. I'll let Francyne respond about up north.

Status of Women committee  Yes, they do. They definitely align, and in particular on recommendation 27.(c)(III) regarding the independent review. In the last few days, we've heard about the situation in Val-d'Or and the “independent review” that was undertaken. What we've heard is that the Val-d'Or revie

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  We have somebody in our office who specializes in taking a look at that question, but the research has just started, so we haven't progressed much on it. We could certainly get back to you with what we do have unless, Marilee, you know about anything else.

Status of Women committee  Actually Francyne, our president, is going to speak.

Environment committee  What we do, basically, is take the piece of legislation, go through it clause by clause, and look at the perspective. Is it taking into account first nations indigenous legal traditions or customary laws? If yes, we wouldn't make a comment, and if no, we would provide some commen

Environment committee  Okay.

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  It does help, but I think I'm still not going to answer that.

Environment committee  As long as the alternatives proposed are looked at from a gender perspective....

Environment committee  I'm just going to speak for 30 seconds, and then Verna is also going to speak. I want to mention that there is a kind of analysis that can be done of the actual legislation. When we say we do a gender-based analysis, we actually go through, clause by clause, and we review it thr

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, Madam Chair and committee members, distinguished witnesses, and guests. My name is Lynne Groulx. I am the executive director of the Native Women's Association of Canada. I am here today with Verna McGregor, NWAC's environmental and climate