Justice committee  If we focus people on sending them to treatment as their punishment, it's going to help them deal with their trauma. When you talk about expunging their criminal charge after one year, they should be able to complete that sentence and follow the guidelines that are going to make

Justice committee  I would agree just because I think the system has to change, and when you talk about that, let's focus on rehabilitation or prevention. How do we prevent somebody from being charged? If it leads to that hope clause, then so be it. If people are convicted, what's the rehabilitati

Justice committee  Thank you for that question. This is real stuff. For people who don't understand and who don't do this work every day, seeing the rehabilitation of the trauma enforced, it's all because of a system of systemic racism that has been dealt to indigenous people. There are two key c

Justice committee  Thank you. Randall, I wish that you and I could have a conversation, because we're on the same page. Every day I deal with people who can't get jobs because of their criminal record. People aren't understanding why they made these choices. Now we try to rehabilitate them. Whe

Justice committee  Thank you very much for the question, Randall. I think this is probably the most important question. I was hoping somebody was going to ask it. When everybody talks about MMPs, I'm going to be honest. It doesn't matter which government it is. For what happened to indigenous peo

Justice committee  Absolutely, 1,000% I agree with you because it's the trauma that's been affected. When you see people who have been taken away from your arms, and you have the RCMP back in the day supporting this and saying, “If you don't give us your children, we're going to send you to jail.”

Justice committee  Tansi. Nanaskomin, kâhkîyaw. My name is Mark Arcand. I'm the tribal chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council. I'm taking this call on Treaty 6 territory in the city of Saskatoon. With regard to Bill C-5, I want to be very clear—mass incarceration of indigenous peoples, period. I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is not pertaining to that. It's an amendment. I'm not sure, Madam Chair, if I just give this to you after or if you would like me to read it into the record.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a great question. I look at this and say that it should be statutory funding for all first nations. Now, people can take into context what that means, but for me we have a lot of ability. Again I'll say that at the Saskatoon Tribal Council we're looking at repatriating 300 k

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First of all, thank you for the question. Thank you for raising it, because at the end of the day, this is why our chiefs of the Saskatoon Tribal Council don't allow anybody to speak on their behalf, because they are not the rights holders of the children of those communities. T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning. [Witness spoke in Cree] [English] What I said was, “Hi, thank you for gathering here on the territory of the Algonquin people.” It's a pleasure to be here today. The reason I'm here is to show support for Bill C-92. The reason we're