Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, we've had conversations with the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. I believe I have a meeting scheduled with them shortly on this front. There have been conversations, yes. I'm always careful when I use the term “consultations”, because the indigenous groups themselves o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've had a number of ongoing conversations with the Native Women's Association on a number of topics. I can't promise at this point in time that the specific issue of COVID-19 was the original subject of the agendas of those conversations. We've talked about many issues on an on

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think my colleague, Deputy Minister Tremblay, will have more to add. I will start, but maybe with not as direct a response as my colleague, given the nature of the mandate of my department. One of the important things here is that we've gone out of our way in this conversatio

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. This marks the 33rd anniversary this coming week of the launching of Delgamuukw trial. That obviously was a very important one for the Wet'suwet'en people. One of the things that has never been concluded between Canada, British Columbia and

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. In fact, shortly after that meeting, we did have a meeting with one of the chiefs, and the minister is on the record as being willing to travel to the area and to meet with elected chiefs as well. Obviously, she's willing and happy to talk to any chief in the country, very m

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, it's Daniel Watson. Very briefly, it's very much in progress. We're in more or less constant conversation—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're very hopeful. We continue on with the work. We continue to advance—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, it's an item that is continuing on for a longer period of time, too. If we're still sitting at 27% at the end date we've set for these things, that would be a big problem, of course, but we intend very much not to be at that point when we get to the ending.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm very happy to. Thank you for the question. I'm happy to provide a fuller debrief on this afterwards, if that's useful to the committee. On a number of the different targets that we set, the realities will be very different for different communities, but they'll also be very

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, it will vary target by target, but sometimes it's just the ongoing nature of the work itself, and so sometimes you don't have a situation where you arrive at a finite point. Concluding an agreement is a finite point; it's binary—you've either met it or you haven't. Other t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, I'm happy to do a more full and detailed briefing on these specific pieces, if that's useful. In some of the incidences, we know that these things are important to do. We know they're important to tackle and to take on, but the nature of the activity itself and the time f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To the extent that it involves departmental staff that would be travelling or being paid salaries, that would be captured in our operating monies, so it's inside the operating budget of the department and not included in this specific claims.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. The short answer is that we don't want to have much of a role to play in that, particularly in Nunavut, and we certainly have limited roles in Yukon and the Northwest Territories. This is actually at the core of the conversations about devolution. H

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I suspect my colleague, Mr. Tremblay, particularly appreciates it being directed my way. One thing that is very different now is that we sat down and talked with those indigenous governments that have been delivering the things we agreed upo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the agreements that we've set up with many parts of the country with the comprehensive land claims, those authorities are there. They aren't always taken up once they exist in those agreements, but that's been a great interest to many first nations for the very reasons you're