Status of Women committee  No. The time limit has been extremely short. By the time the money was gotten to by all the different organizations, it was too short. There was the fact as well that there wasn't even proper consultation. There was maybe three weeks, sometimes one month to do proper consultati

Status of Women committee  Well, for on reserve and off reserve, the problem is that there's just no possibility for women, especially in matrimonial property. Because the Indian Act really favours the men, in the dissolution of marriage it's usually the man who gets the house. When women leave the communi

Status of Women committee  I will tell you just a little about the association I represent. It's a non-profit organization that began as a grassroots movement in 1974 by aboriginal women, and it is the only organization working today on behalf of aboriginal women in Quebec. Our mission is to support and en

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I agree with Ms. Jacobs on this plan, but there is more to this. I believe that we must aim for a constitution, or an aboriginal charter of human rights that would include our culture, aboriginal values, and access to our land and resources.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Excuse me. In the longhouse we stand up when someone speaks. The person who is speaking stands up and nobody interrupts them. This is the kind of government and these are the kinds of people you want us to assimilate to become, people who interrupt each other when they're talki

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I get tired of our being a ping-pong ball between all the different parties. I don't want to be part of that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My point is that if what you're saying is that if this is not passed the way the Conservative government has written it, then it's not a priority for the Conservative government after that...you're not going to look into the recommendations that all of our groups are making. We w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To me, what is lacking is the will of the government. It just seems to me that this present government is only moving because it has been pressured internationally to change what's happening with regard to the Canadian Charter of Rights, which should be applied to reserves. If t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You have some communities that have to hire non-native consultants to come in to help them do their finances. You have communities that have such high levels of poverty that children go hungry. You have levels of alcoholism in some communities that are at 100%.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  How are you going to help those communities if you are not going to do proper consultation, provide capacity-building, and provide the tools and funding that are needed for this?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First of all, I want to correct you. I said I would promote or support the repeal of section 67, but not Bill C-44, because of the lack of consultation, because of the lack of research, and basically because your minister is pushing the wonderful skills of the Canadian Human Righ

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a big question to answer, but I think if you examine some of the recommendations that we have, which include doing research on how this is going impact on communities that have been oppressed by the Indian Act for so many years, it's going to change the way decisions are m

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I guess it's similar to the so-called consultations of matrimonial real property. We were given three months after the contract was signed, but really, in essence, three weeks, and then it was prolonged. How many people is proper consultation? Every single last person, because i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I would just ask if everyone's had a chance to read both our memoirs.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. [Witness speaks in her native language] I am Ellen Gabriel of the Turtle Clan in the community of Kanesatake, the people of the Flint. Quebec Native Women is a non-profit organization whose history dates back to 1974, when aboriginal women banded together to fig