Environment committee  You have a big job.

Environment committee  Notice I said “you”. Because we haven't done these collections.... I'm seeing that more in the health data because we've been working a lot with the data around health with COVID in the groups I work with. Also, there are concerns, because data can also be used against communit

Environment committee  First of all, we have to admit that we're doing that, and that's a problem we have in this country. We refuse to admit that these things are happening, and we keep trying to point out examples where it's happening on a basis to somebody else when, in fact, this is talking about d

Environment committee  Always, for me, it's to consult—because somebody has mentioned this in a different aspect—the communities concerned. They've been dealing with the land and that environment all their lives, and they might not do things the way you normally do things. They have different ways of g

Environment committee  Thank you. I talk too much, don't I?

Environment committee  I'm just excited.

Environment committee  I could say so much. When we started on environmental racism through the ENRICH project, I still remember.... This is the truth. When I was bringing up the flooding issues in our community and was told that flooding was not an environmental racism issue, that's where we started.

Environment committee  You've presupposed that you pick a priority. What I see with the bill is very much a collaborative effort. The bill clearly states that. I don't think that it has to operate in silos. I speak often about how people try to... Often there is this “divide and conquer” kind of attitu

Environment committee  That's okay. Thank you.

Environment committee  With the whole thing around the COVID, I've never heard so much about data collection since we've been dealing with this pandemic. It's so real, and the effect on.... I'm, of course, most familiar with the African-Canadian community. In my community too, we were black and indigen

Environment committee  I know that not everybody is completely in tune with this bill, but we need to pass it. Canada needs it. Once we do that, we can work out all the arms and all the nuances, and all the provincial and what have you. At some point in time, we have to move forward.

Environment committee  Environmental racism cannot be separated from the history of our country. I also chair the Nova Scotia chapter of the Global Afrikan Congress, which addresses the atrocities of what happened as a result of the transatlantic slave trade that we don't like to talk about in Canada

Environment committee  Like I said, my thoughts got kind of broken up there. I wanted to say that what is really great about this bill is that it is national. We tried to address environmental racism, for example, at the provincial level. Although we made headway, we didn't make it through, because th

Environment committee  You've asked the wrong person this question. I say that because of having dealt for a very long time with issues of racism and anti-racism. I'll go back to the previous question, which talked about justice: environmental justice, including racism. I'm old, right? I'm growing ol

Environment committee  I'm not sure, and I can't answer your question directly, but I can answer from having gone through the environmental racism bill that Ms. Zann presented at the provincial level. An example is the ENRICH project. There are many people from the first nations community that are part