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October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I think “elders” is the key word. It's not just “an elder”. We have to have elders, even from the Northwest Territories.

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are not part of anything. I'd say pretty freely that we aren't part of the Land Claims Agreements Coalition either, because we don't have a settled claim. We're not part of the Métis National Council. We don't qualify to be part of them, nor did we ever really want to be part

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would definitely not oppose that when we're talking about reconciliation. They were the ones who were the true founders of the land, and they actually had a lot of things happen to them in the past, so I would definitely support it. It's very important to have them there when t

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I didn't quite understand the question.

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I've been involved in negotiations. I'm 49 years old now, and I've been doing this since 1997. I've been at the table negotiating the land claim. It hasn't made any movement. Government does have a lot of good talk. Right now they're looking even at reconciliation. Rec

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. As you said, they really need to follow up with the self-determination and treating everybody equally. I think that's very important in order to settle the land claims. They have to give us the rights to our lands in order for us to make any kind of movement forward on econom

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. We have given thought to it. The right to self-determination, self-government, is the venue we're using for that. The biggest thing is getting out to our people and talking with our people and getting a grasp of all the past on how things used to be. That's the track

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I do think so. I think it definitely is part of the reconciliation aspect of it due to the fact that we've been left out, as I've mentioned. We have to catch up. We definitely need something to move forward with as soon as possible.

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Thank you. As you know, we've been left out of the treaties since they started to be signed in our territory in 1899, with another one in 1921. Up until then, the first nations had been fully funded. The Métis Nation has never received funding of any sort, and we've been l

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. Thank you for allowing me the time to appear before the standing committee. My name is Garry Bailey. I'm president of the Northwest Territory Métis Nation. The Métis Nation is composed of indigenous Métis members from Fort Smith Métis Council, Hay River Métis Gov

October 24th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Affordable housing is definitely an issue. As we mentioned, people do leave. I've had members leave our community because they didn't have the work and they owed a lot of money for housing because of low-cost housing. They left and moved on to Winnipeg, Manitoba. There ar

April 26th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Since the treaties were signed, health care was given to the first nations. They are 100% covered, and the Métis nation has never had that. The Daniels case that was put through the courts in 2016 said that Canada has the obligation for all Métis around Canada. We need that Danie

April 26th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We signed our agreement in principle in 2015. We just signed our self-government agreement as well. Next is to sign our final agreement and then we'd get into the implementation. We're at the final stages. We're dealing with some key issues. We've been trying new ways to get th

April 26th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We don't have a particular model that we're looking at. We're obviously developing our own self-government model where we're going to be running our own programs, our own services, having our own constitution and our own kind of legislative assembly, I guess.

April 26th, 2022Committee meeting

Garry Bailey