Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —calls to action that would allow us—I'm just going to finish one sentence—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I'm sorry. I understood that it was about the legislation process, but if it was something else, I didn't hear properly.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This particular council is not about indigenous rights; it's about a council to implement the TRC. It's to monitor and to ensure that the TRC calls to action are being implemented and that we do have a report on it so we know what's going on. To me, it's not a rights-based piece

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a really good point. Yes, I think that there could be, under this council, perhaps some kind of report, like a report card, that this council could undertake as part of its work, but in terms of the larger question around rights—first nation rights, inherent rights, aborig

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that question. The process of developing legislation, even if we say we are codeveloping it, it is always flawed. We saw that with Bill C-92 for child welfare. We saw that with languages, and we saw that with the UNDRIP bill, and so there's never a perf

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. The composition of non-indigenous people is very key to reconciliation. I talked a lot about these institutions of assimilation and genocide, and people continually say, “Well, genocide happened to you.” The thing is, somebody was doing the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From the AFN, we would obviously want survivors to be a part of the board. The whole truth and reconciliation process is driven by survivors. It's really important that they are survivors, but then again all of us are in some way intergenerational trauma survivors as a result of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a really great question. As I mentioned, because of the diversity of first nations across Canada, we would have to figure out a proper communications plan around what this council is doing, with quarterly reports and reports at our AGAs and SCAs. In order to make a dent

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. There was no co-drafting, and it would have been in that transition committee of which Dr. Wilton Littlechild was a member. If he's saying there was no co-drafting, then there definitely was no co-drafting.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. Yes, efforts are efforts and results are results. When it comes to reconciliation, I think where we're lacking in Canada is the sense of the truth of that truth and reconciliation report. The truth of what happened in this country is still n

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry; I have limited time today. I have to leave immediately after I finish my presentation. I'm in a community meeting with the chief and council very shortly, so I'm hoping that we can try my trusty other headphones and see how they work.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Probably. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me with these headphones?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  These are my personal headphones, and I will hopefully be able to complete my short presentation with the committee with these headphones. I'm hoping that everyone can hear me. As I said earlier, I have to leave shortly after my presentation as I'm in 'Namgis, or Alert Bay, B.C.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Do you want me to start over, Mr. Chair, with my recommendations? That's the end of my presentation, really. The interpreters can get the recommendations that the AFN has.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of the recommendations from the AFN, we feel it's inappropriate for the federal government to grant itself the discretion to appoint the majority of the board of directors responsible for providing this independent oversight of its own actions. This is not within the spi