Health committee  What is the level of trust right now between indigenous peoples and the RCMP in Canada? Have you been keeping statistics on that and understanding surveys about that? Obviously that's a very important consideration. If someone's not willing to make a complaint, why are they not w

Health committee  Thank you very much, Commissioner, for coming here today. I really appreciate the opportunity to be able to question you on these very serious allegations concerning forced sterilization of women, especially indigenous women, in Canada. Obviously, you said that no complaint has

Health committee  I have one very short question. Alisa, you mentioned that documents had been destroyed for 10 years. Are they still being destroyed today?

Health committee  I'd like to table a motion. I looked at the next meeting we have. I noticed that the RCMP are not coming. I'm a little concerned about that. Therefore, I move: That, in relation to the study of forced sterilization of women in Canada, the Commissioner of the RCMP, Brenda Luck

Health committee  A number of issues have been raised concerning how we charge people and how the justice system works. She's the top police officer in this country, so I think she can offer some suggestions. Maybe she has changes or maybe she knows how the system works properly, why charges haven

Health committee  I will ask all of you this. In your opinion, if no one has been charged anywhere in this country and yet we know it has been going on since the 1970s, does Canadian society really care?

Health committee  Niwakoma cuntik Tansai Nemeaytane Awapantitok. I'd like to thank each and every one of you for coming to testify here at this committee. I can say personally I'm very moved and very concerned by what I've heard. I don't think this is the Canada that people really associate with

Health committee  The RCMP is conducting no investigation.

Health committee  How many investigations concerning this are being conducted by professional bodies that govern doctors, nurses and other professionals in the health care system that you might be aware of?

Health committee  None. Yet this has been in the news for a number of years now, so that means no one has been charged with any crime.

Health committee  These are extremely serious human rights violations, which you have termed “genocide”, which has also been termed “genocide” by international organizations. Do you believe doctors should be losing their licences over forced sterilization? That question is for anyone.

Health committee  Dr. Stote, you talked about how back in the 1970s there were over 1,000 sterilizations.

Health committee  That seems like an awful lot.

Health committee  You also laid out, to be honest, a systematic pattern related to the Indian Act about reducing and curbing the birth rate among the indigenous population in order to, obviously, control expenses related to indigenous peoples and control lands.

Health committee  That would also be related to the Indian Act, which controls membership, such as who is an Indian and who is not a status Indian. Is that right?