Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We support the concern expressed by the Native Women's Association of Canada. We have said so from the first interventions on the first version of Bill S-3, if I may say so. We still have reservations with regard to that provision. That was clause 8 in the previous bill, but it i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When it comes to the second phase, I think that the position of Quebec and Canada's aboriginal women is clear: we do not need a second phase to this bill, so that we can be consulted on the existing discrimination that must be removed from the Indian Act, which is a Canadian piec

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would like to add something to what Ms. Michel just said. She is right; we do not have the right to decide who we are. The government took that right away from us in the 1800s. Today, the government cannot absolve itself of the responsibility for what was done. We are hearing

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I think what's very important to also keep in mind when you look at the Descheneaux case is to request that all gender-based discrimination be tackled. The thing is, with what you're bringing to the table with Bill S-3, you only go as far as 1951, but gender-based dis