Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's in the preamble, as far as I remember.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You get a different point of view. I know the feeling.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First off, I want to say that this legislation does not fix everything. It's legislation that is part of a general process of reforming child and family services and addressing the needs of first nations, Inuit and Métis. It's not the only thing we're doing. What the legislation

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are looking at all of those areas, but we also believe that a lot of those issues would be better addressed in a discussion with the rights holders and the first nations, Inuit and Métis. There's no one-size-fits-all approach across the country to child and family services. It

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The difference would be more the discussion. If they're doing a great job and the first nations that are working with them say they are doing a great job, I don't expect there would be a lot of changes. Exercising jurisdiction doesn't mean you're going to pass a law tomorrow. If

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. In this case, if the first nation-led organization is well perceived by the first nation itself, I don't think they're necessarily going to change it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is not necessarily there to replace good practices. It's there to help the ones who want to do something different to have the tools to do so.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The minister referred to cases that were mentioned, when it's only for socio-economic conditions, the cases that we sometimes call in Manitoba “a birth alert”, or kids that are apprehended at birth and there was not necessarily work done. Sometimes, as we and the minister heard f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a very good example. As you referred to, and you know it as much as I do and probably more, B.C. is a good example of where communities decide to join together sometimes to take jurisdiction or to take control of their own business.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Capacity issues are linked to many reasons. Being a small community is one of them. It's not the only one. It could also sometimes be other issues that they will face. The issue of capacity will have to be addressed. If you're a really small community, it may be difficult to man

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To believe in it, yes. The bill is doing something that is very innovative, as was mentioned. The way that we are recognizing jurisdictions in this legislation was not done in the past, so this is something quite exceptional. We haven't waited for this bill to engage with first

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Under self-government at the moment, there's actually a significant number of them, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My English is so bad that I will let her decide why “apprehension” was used versus other terms.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I mentioned before, this legislation is part of a general plan. There are six points. Part of the six-point plan is actually data. We're working with the partners, but also with provinces and territories because this will have a significant impact on them. It's a discussion th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Ms. Gros-Louis, do you want to respond?