Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. It would be within the power of the department to decide that we could do a status report on the implementation of this legislation, and to determine if such a report would be on an annual basis, or another period of time. (Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceed

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning once again. The general regulatory power already exists in the bill under clause 32, but it doesn't go into detail in terms of what exactly those regulations could look like. The intent of the bill was to leave it to the indigenous partners to discuss, in the transi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From our perspective, the area where we may be outside of scope is with the terminology of “any matter”. This legislation is specific to child and family services. This amendment would open the scope to any issue: education, health. Therefore, in the way it is proposed, it would

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I am Isa Gros-Louis. I'm the Director General for Child and Family Services Reform at Indigenous Services Canada.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You are right that the concept of customary adoption would be a new term if adopted in this amendment. However, the concept of it is captured in the definition of family and “care provider”, so it is within the intent of the bill.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The question was raised, and it's basically to be consistent with existing language use in other legislation. The “apprehension” language is now being used. To make sure our legislation is consistent with the language being used across sectors, we used that language in this bill.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This situation is addressed in clause 16 of the bill. We're asking that each case be re-assessed on an ongoing basis. As part of this process, the situation is reviewed and the reunification of children with their own families is encouraged at all times. The bill seeks to ensure

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  UNDRIP is much broader than this legislation, and maybe you're raising this because it was mentioned in Bill C-91. However, in Bill C-91, UNDRIP refers to languages particularly, whereas UNDRIP does not make particular reference to children and families. That's why it's not speci

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's the power of a group to decide their own fate and their own path.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct. This section—and there are a couple of others that touch upon Jordan's principle—were specifically included in this bill at the request of participants in the engagement session. While we did not specifically call it Jordan's principle, the principle behind Jord

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The government representatives didn't raise these types of concerns at the meeting. However, they acknowledged that they didn't have time to conduct a full analysis of the jurisdictional and constitutional issues and that they needed to take another look at the issues and discuss

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  During the consultation period, we met with representatives of the provinces and territories. I can say that everyone supported the concept of the bill. Quebec and other provinces stated that it would take some time to prepare for the implementation of certain clauses of the bill

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the definition section, it talks about what is an indigenous body that can do so. There is a specific word that says “authorize”. The indigenous governing body means a council, government or other entity that is authorized to act on behalf of an indigenous group, community or

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the legislation there is a section that talks about the duty of the minister to publish the law. Once the law comes into effect, the title of the law, the text of the law and the date of coming into force of the law will be published on the department's website. It will also b