Canadian Heritage committee  Do you know the anthropologist Serge Bouchard?

Canadian Heritage committee  He lived in my community and gave back to my community. It also takes people like him, who understand, who have lived with us and who give back to us.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's going to be quite a challenge, because in Quebec, it's the curriculum versus our history. If people really want to know our history, it's going to take a lot of tact, understanding and decision making, and not just a little course like the one we know today. The important wo

Canadian Heritage committee  Like most leaders, I don't feel political fatigue from preparing and presenting numerous briefs. In 1985, I served on the commission. I also participated in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Viens commission in Quebec. We worked so hard, and we made every effort pos

Canadian Heritage committee  This can be an important tool in the process. As I said earlier, I've accompanied elders from my community to the United Nations in New York and Geneva to work with all the First Nations of the world. In fact, Max Gros-Louis was part of these trips. This would be a very importan

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said, it's your system. You have elections every four years, you have bills that die on the order paper, as most of them do. We work very hard in our communities. We work at the grassroots. We're raising awareness among our people. For example, Bill C-92 is important for the

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. In the community where I come from, it took about 20 years before we could have the Maison de la culture innue. In fact, we now receive a lot of people. People from all over the world even arrived by boat before they were banned. As you say, these would be quite sign

Canadian Heritage committee  I've read so many reports since the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and there have been so many recommendations and calls to action, whether from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission or the Viens commission in Quebec. Let me tell you what is unfortunate. Many people ha

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly, it should be more than a holiday. If we go on like this, adding days here and there, the calendar is going to be filled up with days like Remembrance Day or June 24. Quebec is going to have a day on September 28, to commemorate the tragic death of Joyce Echaquan. There

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me be sincere and transparent when I tell you that I hope that the national day for truth and reconciliation will not just be for public servants, because that may end up as a holiday that we, in our already underfunded communities, will have to pay for. That said, it's good

Canadian Heritage committee  Normally, I would talk for a day, but I will restrain myself and take only five minutes. The fact remains that this is a very important moment in our lives. My name is Jean-Charles Piétacho. My family name is actually not like the Oblates wrote it back in the day. In Innu, my na