Public Safety committee  Whether this is succeeding in its intention is something for your committee. I think having those amended to make sure that our first nations are involved.... When it comes to the red and yellow flags, it's really important to communicate how to utilize them and how they are goi

Public Safety committee  I'm giving you a red flag.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for that question, and certainly, it's a very difficult one. For me, if you're talking about communities, my uncle was shot and murdered by gun violence. That was over 30 years ago, and certainly at that time there were none of these laws. The relations with police wer

Public Safety committee  From a criminal's perspective, quite simply, perhaps it will. This comes around to Bill C-21 and guns utilized in urban centres. There's also the fact that more often than not, there is a connection between our first nations communities and urban centres, where many of our youn

Public Safety committee  Some of the provisions within Bill C-21 set out what the task of the firearms officer will be. I think, ultimately, this is the cautionary tale. For example, there are many rules and regulations in regard to police officers, yet there's a high rate of death and injury of indigeno

Public Safety committee  Yes, I think it's about more clarity on these provisions. The recommendation we have is to really understand how the red flag and the yellow flag provisions within this bill affect indigenous peoples and our first nations communities. We need more clarity. On those examples you

Public Safety committee  Well, I think what's not clear to me or clear to many indigenous people is that far too often well-intentioned bills and laws can potentially be utilized against first nations peoples. I believe Vice-Chief Bear gave a good example. Perhaps there is a report on somebody or perhaps

Public Safety committee  In terms of consultation, at least for my region, I think it's one thing to go to our head office at the AFN and speak to the national chief, or even me. The problem is getting down to the grassroots people and talking about how this law would infringe those practitioners, as sta

Public Safety committee  There hasn't been any meaningful consultation or involvement with first nations, at least at this level. I am also the portfolio holder for justice and policing for the Assembly of First Nations, along with Ghislain Picard. There hasn't been any meaningful consultation or engag

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning. First of all, I want to acknowledge the territory that I'm calling from, the unceded, unsurrendered, continually occupied territory of the Lheidli T'enneh. I want to thank all the committee members for attending today, and also Vice-Chief

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the federal government could certainly offer some more resources and funding to operate. Many first nations out there do have ideas in terms of investment. You have Carol Anne Hilton at Indigenomics raising a vast amount of funds to see more economic development in first

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I got part of it. I'll do my best. I'm a regional chief, not a grand chief. As part of section 35 of the Indian Act, and also with the new act—the declaration of rights of indigenous peoples, Bill C-15, which was passed federally—I think it's important to share some of t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms the sovereignty of those first nations—and his community, the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc—they have the ability to tax some of the businesses that they have, in particular gas stations and those types of businesses. It's really important to understand and know that if it's i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The work that we do at the AFN is to support and advocate for [Technical difficulty—Editor] self determination by arrangements made with the province or the federal government. Really it comes from the [Technical difficulty—Editor]. We don't impede the way in which they move for

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Exactly. In terms of police services, once again, it's going from program funding to essential services funding. More importantly, in terms of economic development, more often than not, we're looking at different types of partnerships that would allow us to really create those sp