Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the improvements that definitely can be made is creating sub-units under this act. We cannot address all of the issues in our communities under one sort of board. We need to look at it in separate parts, and we definitely need to address these different parts differently.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's one of the things these sub-units will address. Is one area getting more money than the other or is one area being neglected over another? There's no possible way that we can measure all of this under one umbrella, but if we start parsing it out and having different sub-un

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My community is actually an hour and a half from the nearest city. It's two and a half hours if we go north. It's very hard for community members to access even something as simple as a blood test. They have to drive for this. It is not easy for them to get out of the community t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I didn't get the translation. Sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's definitely hindering. It's a hindrance to communities because it puts us in a box and says that we need to do this or, if we want any kind of economic development in our community, we have to go by it first, so it's very paternalistic and doesn't allow communities to prosper

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I definitely agree. If you look at my opening statement or Chief Willie Sellars' opening statement, he said his community has close to 0% unemployment. My community has 95% unemployment. This variation across the country and different reserves is definitely an issue we need to a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I am, and I can start.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for allowing me to be here today to speak. I grew up on the Muskowekwan First Nation located in Saskatchewan. The residential school on my reserve was operating from 1889 to 1997. The public school in the nearest town was a place for learning for the reserve children,

Finance committee  One example that I can give you quite specifically is here in Alberta. The Ermineskin Cree Nation wanted to open a coal mine. They didn't want to use coal as an energy source but to convert this coal to steel and help in steel production. This project was rejected. I believe it w

Finance committee  I think government needs to include the leaders of these communities. That's the simple answer. Until you reach out to them, and until you get their ideas on what they would need economically, we'll never know. Part of reconciliation is actually reaching out to your local indig

Finance committee  Thank you for inviting me to this committee today to speak on behalf of not only indigenous prosperity but also indigenous rights. I am here today to let this committee know that indigenous voices have been excluded in really important discussions on climate change as well as the