Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Something my colleagues have said is that we have to let people know what our ancestors went through. The government itself has to start reading some of the stuff like the TRC, UNDRIP and the Daniels case. Everything is in that. What's the outcome, especially with UNDRIP? Canada

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With respect to our first colleague, I would really like to stand up for her. You say there is urgency, but in her case, it's a crisis. She's saying that within two years' time she doesn't know what they're going to do up there. They need a school and they need a school now. Why

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of our main things is that it comes right back to funding. Our students, if they have to work after school, may have to work until nine or 10 o'clock, and they would be trying to do their homework at the same time. They're going to be really stressed out come morning, and the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Boozhoo. Aanii. Sekoh. Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge that I am speaking on the ancestral territory of the first nations, Métis and Inuit people in Winnipeg, Treaty 1. I would also like to thank Madam Chair and the INAN committee for inviting me here today. As CA

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I know that Bob. Actually Bob, you're one of the people who brings us to all of the meetings. I'll mention that the other one is Rachel Blaney. We've had meetings with Rachel. Some of the other ones I'm not quite sure of, but at least the two of you who are here, we've had table

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It was a major impact like with Jordan's principle. CAP, the grassroots people and our PTOs have no say in any of this. As far as being left out goes, we weren't the only ones who were left out. The Native Women's Association was also left out. I don't know whether the MPs know t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Basically, I just found out about this a couple of months ago. When the women go out, they usually go out two at a time, or they make contact. Say, Susan phones up her friend Joy saying, “I'm coming over to visit.” They keep an eye out that way. It's been a very successful progr

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee and fellow witnesses, thank you for the opportunity to speak on the issue of trafficking of indigenous people. As you are well aware, my name is Elmer St. Pierre, and I am the national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. I acknowledg

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the main thing would be to get the food to our northern outreach communities, which are hard to reach, to start out with. As I said, maybe your committee could go to the government and say, “listen, here's a great idea”—well, I think it's a great idea—“let's use the army.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will still emphasize that we have to get the food up into the northern communities. It's as simple as that. If it means that we need to use the army—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I was saying, I still emphasize that I'd like to see in your report that using the army to transport food into the northern communities was mentioned. Whether it's in the summertime or wintertime, either way, we have to get the food up into the northern communities. It's as si

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Actually, I live in the urban area of Kingston. The numbers have grown. If you go with Stats Canada, I think there's something like 30,000 or 40,000 aboriginal people who don't belong to an organized nation, but it's part of our mandate to make sure they are looked after. Ever

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When we do hunt, by that time, all our people pretty well know how to harvest and to do their own cutting up and everything. If not, there are local butcher shops in the countryside where a lot of our hunters take their deer or moose—whatever the case may be—to get cut up and wra

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just like my other colleagues here and the ones before...it's unforeseen weather. Maybe the airplanes are heading up to northern Manitoba and all of a sudden there's a big rainstorm or whatever coming in and they can't get there. That's a problem. Those people in northern Manitob

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's okay, Bob.