Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Can I just beg to address the indigenous women's inquiry?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From my perspective, the importance of the UN declaration is the recognition of economic, social and cultural rights; things like housing, education and the rights to a job. Those are issues that have been recognized by the inquiry as fundamental for protecting indigenous women.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure, I'm happy to continue the conversation. I think that starting back in the early 2000s the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues had a study on free, prior and informed consent that set out a lot of the standards about what sort of information..., what “free”

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I will try to do so quickly. I was trying to allude to this in my opening statement, but I'll try to be more concrete here. I think that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission focused on the UN declaration as the framework for reconciliation because it recognizes th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks. I think its really important to remember again that the UN declaration didn't just pop out of nowhere. This goes back to member Battiste's question. There's actually 20 years of jurisprudence and studies that have happened at the international level that help us underst

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think practically, and you're in a better position to know how government works than perhaps I am, there was nothing. There were, of course, challenges that we see. We all put in a lot of time and effort into Bill C-262. It had made it through the House. It had made through man

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks, Ms. Gazan, for your question. I'm going to try to answer it as quickly as I can. There was included in the original Constitution the idea to try to negotiate additional understanding of section 35 through those constitutional round tables that were going to look at self-

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can say, from my experience participating internationally, that many indigenous peoples turned to the international arena when there were challenges that they were facing domestically and could not find sufficient resolution. What I have seen and heard, and even what I contin

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks, Mr. Battiste, for your question. I will try my best to answer it. I'm going to do it somewhat laterally and perhaps respond to the trends I see happening internationally. I think it's really important for this committee and for our Parliament to be aware that there is g

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Northern Michif] Hello, my name is Brenda Gunn. I live in Winnipeg and my family is from the Red River. I am Métis, and, as noted by the chair, I am an associate professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law. I have worked in both international and co

Natural Resources committee  That's a challenging question, and I think this is where energy projects or any natural resource project exists in a context in Canada where there have been a historic pitting of first nations against Métis. I think some of the colonial burden and legacy is what we need to be min

Natural Resources committee  I think international law has reiterated the same point, but it's important to be clear on what we mean by veto. If we're thinking that Canada goes in, presents a plan to indigenous peoples and tells them, you can say yes but can't say no, so say yes and we're going to walk away,

Natural Resources committee  I was hoping I would go last. I was going to try to pull up—

Natural Resources committee  Maybe I'll just try to speak really quickly, because I believe our time is almost up. It should be as early as possible. I know that's not the specific answer you're looking for, but we want to make sure that the engagement is early enough so that indigenous peoples can truly pa

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure I quite understand why we think the railway system wouldn't have been built. I think in some ways it's a really good example. We can see that the negotiation of Treaty No. 3 took a little bit longer, but Treaty No. 3 was negotiated and allowed for the railway system