Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. Bill C-92 would conceivably give you the ability to set up that structure for yourself, which would include the courts, but there is going to be a gap between what we have now and what we have whenever you can get the resources and get your laws and other things in place. We

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There was discussion, because there was all kinds of information sought by the government through their various engagement sessions, which they list. At every one of them—although I wasn't at all of them—it was mentioned. Everybody has talked about funding. It's been front and ce

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we need to look at—and this is also something that we've attached for your information once you get the translated version—the notices that were developed. The co-development meant we actually sat down and looked at draft forms. We all worked together and asked question

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From my perspective, the preamble does a fairly good job of recognizing the substantive equality that came out of the Canadian human rights decision. We don't have a lot of qualms about the wording in the bill. There's one change that we're suggesting to that preamble that spea

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With respect to subclause 10(3), we've asked just to add a little more wiggle room into the beginning section. Where it starts: To determine the best interests of an Indigenous child, all factors related to the circumstances of the child We say it should continue with “shall

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They called it a “consultation draft”. It doesn't necessarily reflect exactly what's in Bill C-92 now. There were some changes that were made in that week, but there are also things that were added to it that we had never seen before. One of them is paragraph 10(3)(g), the family

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's unfortunate that you don't have the brief. We've actually made suggestions as to the wording. We're just pulling the wording from the preamble on the funding provisions into the actual body of the bill. It is just the principles primarily from the Canadian human rights decis

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I was, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It was, basically, the best we could do in the short timelines we had. We were dealing with everybody, bringing everybody together, and sharing information. Everybody put forward their positions on what they felt the drafting instructions should be for Bill C-92, and once the con

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's the definition of “care provider”, so it's in the definition section. We've proposed specific suggestions to change that. On subclause 31(1), the five-year review provision, we're asking that you consider making that three years instead because there are a number of differe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My name is Jennifer Cox. I am a Mi'kmaw lawyer. I've been working in the province of Nova Scotia, although I worked for a number of years in the province of Saskatchewan as well. It will be 24 years this June that I first started practising law. I've done a lot of work in the a