Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for allowing me to speak. Natan—of course a very close friend of mine—it's great to see you again. Marlene, it's been a while since I saw you. It's great to hear your opinion and views. Natan, you'll see me now reading something, which I'm not typica

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a very important question. What's so beautiful about the indigenous culture, in particular my culture—I'll speak, of course, of the Métis nation—is that the elders always come first. That's the number one priority of our systems. In fact, when COVID was being discussed

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I said, I do commend you, Gary. You're the first one to raise the Métis name and the whole issue of the media in northern Saskatchewan. It was always indigenous, indigenous, indigenous, and the concept that there was a crisis happening in the Métis community was getting lost.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In fact, the Métis government... what we did in Manitoba is we have a very close relationship.... We actually have RCMP posted right in our building because it's a long-term relationship we've built with them, to work in conjunction with our communities. Second, we actually put t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can add to that. We three leaders had a discussion with the Prime Minister with respect to what Canada was going to attempt to do and how it was going to go about distributing resources. That helped a lot and gave us a direction; it set the framework for us. Yes, everybody can

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Bob, for that. Let me say this. From our perspective, testing is clearly—you're absolutely right—one of the keys to solving this or helping to at least curb it in some form or fashion. There's definitely not enough testing taking place across the country. W

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I can't. This is important. We're taking advice from all of the medical experts right now in Canada. We're listening to the doctors and trying to follow that direction.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Let me start. Thanks. Nobody has asked that question. From our perspective let me put it this way: from here to eternity probably, because we never got anything. We didn't get one mask. We didn't get one hand sanitizer. We didn't get anything in our Métis communities. As I said,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have to apologize to my cousins in Quebec. I'm not connected to the translation. Can somebody repeat in English what the question was, please?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I do apologize to Sylvie.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't see Perry on the screen, so I'll jump ahead of him. There you go, Perry. I have to get ahead of you, man. Anyway, I thank Leah for that question, and let me answer this way: It truly is an important prospect, and I think that is what is shown, again, when I talk about t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I can, Mr. Chair, I'll add on to Jaime's question. I was quite surprised by Gary's question because I think it's a wrong approach to the question. First of all, I wanted to commend him personally because he's the only one that raised the Métis issue, the Métis Nation. After

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. The first case came into La Loche around April 15 or 17, and when it took off, it took off. However, the reserve next door.... It's connected. It's the same thing across Manitoba with Métis villages. For those of you who do not know the Métis community in western Canada, on

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me compliment you on pronouncing ITK because I can't say it to my old friend Natan. There are so many different times that I've tried. I want to start off quickly, before I do my presentation, with this. I'm a leader who likes to speak right off the cu

Finance committee  If I may, Mr. Chair....