Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I agree, but I would also challenge committee members to think about what the implementation of UNDRIP would actually look like to this committee. I think about this work in terms of fractals, and if we can't change ourselves, then how are we possibly going to change a country? T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a good question. For me, I think that once this bill is adopted, an important process of informing the communities needs to happen. As young people, that's an important piece to us: to be informed about what's happening so that we can understand and engage with it in a wa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To me, your question makes me think about the intention behind naming that as a challenge or wanting to dig deep into FPIC at this stage of the bill. If the intention were to move things forward in a collaborative process that is outlined in UNDRIP, then we would be having a diff

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Ojibwe] My name is Jessica Bolduc, and I am Anishinabe, from the Bear Clan of the Batchewana First Nation. I'm grateful to be here as a guest on unceded Algonquin territory, and I want to begin by giving thanks to the Algonquin people for their continued prese