Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There wasn't specific consultation on this specific issue with any specific indigenous group. All of our calls to action came from the body of resource we had to draw upon, which was research that was available that we had brought together, research we had commissioned on various

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. You're absolutely right in seizing on education as the heart of the matter, as I tried to underscore in my opening remarks. I would say, in the short answer, “Ideally, yes”, but if there is a reason why the newcomers booklet is not yet ready, I don't think one should

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would say something about it as well. As you probably know if you've read them both, there's actually a significant amount of relationship between the calls for justice in the report on the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls and the TRC calls to action. As I star

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm fine with it the way it is, but I'm not the one passing laws here. The spirit of it captures the spirit of what we were trying to say—that there are legally binding commitments that exist in Canada historically and that are captured in various ways in modern-day treaties and

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Am I to talk about 94 and why it's important? Is that what she said?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that I touched on it in my presentation. However, I can tell you where it comes from, if you want. A number of calls to action focus on education and training, both for the general public and for children in our schools. However, newcomers are missing out on all this. T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. We didn't refer to the Constitution in call to action number 94, but I wouldn't object to it. I know that this complicates things for Quebec. However, the spirit of the call to action is in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution. There are fundamental agreements with a n

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  These are political issues. For me, the essence of what we're trying to accomplish is what matters. We need to find the right words for this, whether it involves treaties, the wording proposed by Mr. Obed or something else. The only thing that we're stressing today is that we mus

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  May I jump in and respond to the question? Cynthia, do you mind...with your forgiveness?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think this ties into Natan's point, but he'll certainly speak for himself further. I just want to say that in the wording we had in the original call to action, the deficiency of it was that when you speak about treaties, including modern-day treaties, there's a risk that peopl

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I wouldn't say that—and it's quite a technical legal question, so I don't presume to be equipped to drill down into the legal elements of it—but I do know that people understand that countries have constitutions. People don't necessarily understand that countries have treaties wi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, I would draw your attention to calls to action 53 to 56. They talk very specifically about the creation of a national council for reconciliation. One of its core purposes is to keep an oversight eye on progress and implementation of the other calls to action, but also to cr

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Apart from our audio check, I do want to do a proper introduction of myself. Just to let you know, I'm coming to you from Yellowknife, which is part of the traditional territory of the Yellowknives Dene, the Wiiliideh Dene of the Dene Nation. It's part of the Treaty 8

Canadian Heritage committee  A budget?

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I haven't thought about a budget, nor did we, with the time we had, do a blue ribbon analysis of the costs of any of our calls to action, but we do know—and I heard the previous speakers say so as well—that there's a huge cost in doing nothing. I know that the status quo with