Status of Women committee  In fact, the Femmes autochtones du Québec organization and the friendship centres might be described as two completely different worlds, and yet they are similar in many respects. The experience of women living in a community setting is nevertheless very different than for women

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. We are indeed talking about consultations before, during and after project implementation. Beforehand, when a project plan is in development, the neighbouring communities and indigenous women should be consulted about the right to free, prior and info

Status of Women committee  I'm going to change the wording of your question to make sure that I've understood properly. You want to know why indigenous women are not taken into consideration. Is that right?

Status of Women committee  As was mentioned earlier, for some years now there have been a few more indigenous women in the mining industry, even though they are still a small minority. It's mainly men who work in this industry. Many, but not all, of the few women who decide to work in mining are subjected

Status of Women committee  When Ms. Étienne spoke about the United Nations Declaration, she was referring to the MMIWG calls to action 13.1 to 13.5, which we also discussed earlier. The goal of these calls to action is for the welfare and safety of indigenous women to be taken into consideration in the de

Status of Women committee  Thank you for asking that question. It's very interesting to be talking about the plan that was presented in June 2021. Remember that the National Inquiry into MMIWG was conducted in 2019. Two years later, we presented a plan, but it was not really implemented. We are hoping for

Status of Women committee  Ms. Étienne had to leave, as she told us earlier. Very few measures have been introduced as a result of these criticisms. So few, in fact, that I would venture to say that there were none at all. That is extremely disappointing. We were just now talking about reconciliation, but