Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I will be sending the rest of my notes to your committee.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, committee members and fellow witnesses. My name is Robert Bertrand, National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, CAP. I thank the committee members and staff for this invitation to share our constituents' concerns. Mr. Chair, we appreciate thi

Finance committee  Mr. Julian, I would like to thank you so much for your question. To answer it as honestly as I could, I deeply feel that CAP is not listened to. We have talked to CIRNAC and we've talked to ISC. I don't know how many letters I've sent to the Prime Minister's office for a meeting

Finance committee  Mr. McLeod, thank you so much for your question. I'm very happy to see that your people were able to participate in these programs. By what you have just said, I think we have concrete evidence of why it's important that all groups be included. It is very maddening when you see

Finance committee  The amount of resources allocated off reserve for this pandemic was a slap in the face, excuse the expression. When we convened our PTOs to tell them that, across Canada, CAP had received only $250,000—if you divide that by 10 PTOs, it's $25,000 per PTO—some of the chiefs were so

Finance committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, committee members and fellow witnesses. My name is Robert Bertrand. I'm the national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, or CAP, as we like to call it. I would like to extend my thanks for this invitation and to those who have worked to bring