Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Make land available. Stop regulating first nations when it comes to economic growth or economic investment. Give us a guarantee for first nations that want to have foreign investment, and give us our land so that we can develop our land and create opportunities. Get the bureauc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Anyone who is involved in the private sector knows that it's always very competitive. You have to have the relationships in order to know where to purchase and where the best labour is for whatever industry you're working in. Capital is an important part of that in order for you

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the significant solutions to what you're talking about is connectivity in our communities and the online economic development opportunities for training, universities, certification, and all of those things. It's obviously not the directly applied arts, because to be able

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that we always want to make these things much easier for first nations to have meaningful involvement, and absolutely we haven't seen that. We haven't been given that opportunity, so we want to be given that opportunity. SCO represents first nations that are isolated and

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First, I have to disagree with an attempt to frame the residential schools as anything but trying to kill the Indian in the child. I will not ever accept the residential schools for anything outside of that. I'll stop there to say that what we are doing is giving our young peop

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I could talk all day about this. I could talk about how the provinces like to take away our tobacco tax and try to strip us...and impose their jurisdiction in first nations. You don't see that in Ontario. When the cannabis industry was presented, it would have been a leg-up for

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I just caught the last of it because I was looking for it, but I didn't catch the whole thing.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. Many would be aware that we face a systemic discrimination challenge in this country at the jobs level and the hiring level. We hear about it quite a bit from our members, who are going to different sites in northern Manitoba and different regions looking for work.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Education needs to be reflective of the local economy and the opportunities that are available within it, which are not always present, and clearly connected to the training that is being done in the region. Emerging industries are very important, but first nations definitely hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are numerous examples. We have a film industry that's being developed here in southern Manitoba. First nations are not engaged at the table. We've just recently started speaking with some of the local leadership about this, but that's through our own work here at SCEDC. We'

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Equity is important because without it the individual, community or business development corporation has an infinitely more difficult time in starting and sustaining a path to wealth creation through economic development. Access to capital remains a barrier. In addition

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Ojibwa] [English] Thank you for the invitation to appear as a panellist to present the following opening statement regarding the very important and long-standing issue of barriers to economic development. My name is Jerry Daniels. I'm the chairman of the Sout