Canadian Heritage committee  I'd just mention that anybody who has been in the collection rooms of indigenous collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, or any of these other museums, will understand the sheer volume of artifacts that we're talking about. This is in no way going to lead to an emptying out of t

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it definitely is. This is a big healing. It's a chance for all these artifacts.... I wanted to propose concrete steps to moving forward, especially when an institution has an artifact and it's proposed that it be repatriated to a home community or an interested community.

Canadian Heritage committee  We are currently grateful recipients of MAP funding. My take on it is that it's an incredible program, but it's a program, and now, because there is no core funding for institutions like ours, we end up having to shoehorn our own maintenance and objectives and ongoing activities

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I'll be brief anyway. I'm the executive director of the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation. I'm from Manitoulin Island. It's located in Sheg First Nation. We are an indigenous-controlled and run public arts-based museum and cultural centre. We represent the six first nations of