Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for this suggestion. The officials' position would be that what we heard throughout our engagement was that, yes, there is a need for regulations and these regulations need to be co-developed. What was decided to respond to this request was to incorporate a general reg

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I am Marcus Léonard. I work for Indigenous Services Canada with Ms. Gros-Louis.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may, during our engagement last summer and fall, this was a request we heard throughout, that there should be at least some sort of reference to customary adoption. As a result of this, we added the notion of care provider, which talks about a “person who has primary respons