Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Let's get rid of this archaic concept and build a true nation-to-nation relationship, and we'll all be better.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Ekosi.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll second that motion.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This is what I think needs to happen. We actually have to have a fulsome discussion, and we have to have a proper understanding of the things that we are discussing. We can say that the system is broken, but maybe it's not. The system is chronically underfunded. As I said, the M

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe there needs to be a complete overhaul of the system and that as a nation we need to come to terms with the fact that we need to find a new way forward. However, whatever that path becomes, we'll have to have a meaningful contribution from the indigenous governance in ou

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure what your question is, but I would like to answer it because you triggered a statement that I'd like to respond to. Fraud is a very specific thing and I would encourage anybody who discovers fraud to persecute that person to the fullest extent of the law. However,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Get rid of this policy and give people—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The intervention policy. Also give people adequate funding to administer what it is we need to do. Cease with the lack of transparency talk. Cease with the mismanagement talk and come to the truth of the matter. If everybody had had full disclosure back in 1982 when communities s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd like to reiterate a couple of my other statements. It's a fact that we are chronically underfunded. As I said earlier, in 1980 our population was just 1,000 people. Now we have 3,500 and the same annual budget to administer all of our programs in the community. Our social pro

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Grand Chief, and my thanks to all of you for inviting us to be witnesses. I'm Chief Arlen Dumas from the Mathias Colomb First Nation. I took the liberty of listening to all the other witnesses and presentations given here in front of this committee. I woul