Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was nice to see all of you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, I think that your committee should recommend to the Chief Electoral Officer a process of engagement with Métis governing members to ensure that the ballots go to the people they should go to. We'll do our part to encourage people to vote and help them to understand how to v

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think this process has started that process. I think we should get on that right away. I mean, we don't know how.... We're hoping you guys will govern for a longer period while we work some of these things out. This is precisely why we need to start those conversations sooner r

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, we've worked with Elections Canada and Stats Canada actually, to encourage Métis participation in the census. There are ways we target our communications at the regional level and through our meetings to make that happen. As you know, the biggest demographic with the lowest

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I look forward to a future conversation on how we can increase the number of indigenous MPs in the House of Commons. That's a much larger conversation, but I look forward to that in the future.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I'll mention something that came up with the Assembly of First Nations, namely the voting date. We have a fixed voting date in October, and that's hunting season, generally. In Manitoba, at least, we regulate that hunt. That date is somethi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it's grown in every election.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can't say every election, but the trend line is growing. One of the things, especially in the federal election, is that until five years ago, the federal government claimed very little responsibility for the Métis people. They provided employment, training and governance fundi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Our participation in the election was to try to push for the things that the people needed, so this is why our participation was always a little bit higher.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Danny Vandal, our Northern Affairs Minister, is a proud Métis from Manitoba. Michelle Rempel Garner has Métis heritage, but she doesn't identify as Métis. We have a couple of senators who have been appointed.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can certainly say that in Saskatchewan there was. The first nations and the Métis decided there weren't going to be any visitors up there, never mind Elections Canada visitors. I think that's a risk in all the northern parts of western Canada. It's nice to see the southerners

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. As I said, 60% of the Métis population will be in the large urban centres and the big rural centres, but we have communities all over the boreal forest, that whole lung of Canada, and throughout what we consider our traditional territories right into the Northwest Territorie

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I think the demographics are different. In the rural areas, we'll have more of an aging population. They've been there a long time. They're not flocking to the cities or anything like that, so you could have a lower participation rate. But again, our civic participation is

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From an administrative point of view, probably.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Any way to increase the distant access to voting would be good. I can check with our leadership, but their main line is to make it as safe as possible, make it as long as possible if that makes it safer, and, if you can, avoid it until we get out of the pandemic. That's basically