Status of Women committee  I believe what we said was that concrete steps could be taken. They haven't been.

Status of Women committee  We need the communities to have a say and not just consultation, because consultation as currently practised is not listening. They just send people into the communities in suits. They may give people an opportunity to talk, but it doesn't change anything. They don't change their

Status of Women committee  Yes. When I said “suits”, I didn't mean to insult anyone. It's just the way the community members have talked to me, because they have an immediate reaction to that. It sends a certain message. As you say, it sends a message of authority.

Status of Women committee  Yes, that is exactly the situation. Electric power is being extracted from northern Manitoba for the benefit of southerners in southern Manitoba, and some of the power is sold to other provinces and American states. The benefits go to Manitobans and largely to Manitoba Hydro its

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Leah, for the question. I think Ramona and I will both answer. Ramona, I think, will have some thoughts on the funds and resources for cultural programming. Just in terms of changing the situation, these communities need to have a say. UNDRIP says that indigenous peo

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for your question. I would like to answer in French, but my French is too rusty, so I will answer in English—but it's nice to hear French. The fundamental problem with drinkable water is that we have contaminated our rivers and lakes. I hear from the communit

Status of Women committee  We've been thinking a lot about solutions as we've worked with communities. The thing that our community partners talk about all the time is culture, the harm to culture because of residential schools and other colonial histories, but very much because of the hydro dams, and that

Status of Women committee  We submitted a brief to this committee in May. In that brief, we offered a short summary of some of the key impacts of hydro power, which commits serious violence against the environment and the waters, despite its image as clean, green energy.

Status of Women committee  The practice and teaching of indigenous cultures happen out on the land and on the water. These were the sites where ceremony took place and, in many forms, they are where connections were forged with the land and with families. The disruption of these teachings and practices is

Status of Women committee  In recent years, members of several Manitoba first nations have spoken out about the prevalence of violence committed by members of hydro construction crews—in both the past and in recent times—disclosing that many women were sexually assaulted by workers who lived in those tempo

Status of Women committee  Hello, honourable Chair and committee. Thank you for including us in this very important process, and thank you for holding this inquiry in response to the national inquiry's call to justice. It's really heartening to see this happening. We are here representing the Wa Ni Ska T