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Health committee Thank you. I would like to start by acknowledging that although we may not be together in the same place for this meeting, we are all on Turtle Island. Indigenous peoples have been on this land since the first sunrise. I want to take a moment to acknowledge our elders, who ar
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The chiefs are the ones who make the decisions. The way we've structured it is very similar. At SCO we have a director of families and a chief of families. We do the same thing with health. We are structuring to do those sorts of things, but we do want to support the treaty gover
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We have a restorative justice program at SCO, so we have restorative justice committees in the communities. Actually, I'm heading over to the indigenous justice conference right after this, and we're going to be talking about Southern Chiefs' Organization and the work we're doing
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee In southern Manitoba we've been challenged with this, not only on CFS but really along many different lines, with the discussion around Treaty 1, Treaty 2, the Dakota governance, Treaty 5, and the already long-established Treaty 3 and Treaty 4. What unites many of us in southern
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Although we do believe that it would be nice to have that in there, I think it's important that we identify what substantive equality really means. Substantive equality might actually mean that you fund first nations much more than you fund non-first nations because of the equity
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Of course we do. We have to be able to work as collaboratively as possible. When that has been exhausted, however, we have to be able to move on. My hope is that the federal government can intervene in that instance. That's why I asked, long before there was ever any drafted legi
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Sure. The ability for a first nation to structure its own laws that will then be recognized by the province and the federal government is something that we've long advocated for. It's a long time coming. We believe that we definitely will be quite capable of ensuring that the str
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I think we have about 14 in the south.
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We have 34.
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We had conversations. I wouldn't say that we were consulted because I don't think that the threshold in terms of consultation was quite there. I think we had a conversation. I think we've always been proactive in engaging in the discussion around whatever policy is on the agenda
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes. I'm comfortable in saying that there are enough first nations in southern Manitoba that want to see movement that we can support the bill.
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Good morning. Thank you, members of the committee, for allowing me some time to speak on a very important matter that affects our children, our families, our communities and the nation. My name is Jerry Daniels. I'm the grand chief for the Southern Chiefs' Organization: 34 first
May 14th, 2019Committee meeting
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels