Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madame. My name is Theodore John Merasty. I am from the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, in northeastern Saskatchewan. Our territory encompasses 32,000 square kilometres, eight communities, and over 11,000 band members, and it is a vast untapped territory

Indigenous Languages Act   million for indigenous organizations. John Duncan, from Vancouver Island, was the then aboriginal affairs minister. When he was put in that position in 2012, he said the Conservatives would change the funding model for aboriginal organizations and tribal councils, focusing on the areas

Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act   with abandoned and derelict vessels. They were in government for 10 years and they left coastal communities vulnerable. The number of derelict and abandoned vessels skyrocketed, with no action from the Harper government. In fact, John Duncan, who at the time was the MP for Vancouver Island

Bill C-86 A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures

issues identified by the bodies established under the Act; and (c) provide another option for First Nations to access moneys held by Her Majesty for their use and benefit. Division 13 of Part 4 amends the Export and Import Permits Act to give the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Environment committee  I'll make the subamendment for her. I would like to replace “minister of Indian and northern development” with “minister of indigenous and northern affairs”.

Foreign Affairs  %, putting a $4-billion pulse industry at risk. When will the Prime Minister apologize to the Indian government, because does he know who is paying for these false accusations? Canadian farmers.

Business of Supply  , Inuit, and Métis children were removed from their homes, removed from their communities, and forced to attend these schools, and thousands of them died. In 2008, in this place, Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially apologized for the Government of Canada's role in the Indian

Business of Supply   Commission. Duncan Campbell Scott articulated the policy: I want to get rid of the Indian problem....That is my whole point. Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic, and there is no Indian question

Committees of the House   committees. I move: That, in relation to its study on needs and issues specific to indigenous veterans, seven members of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs be authorized to travel to Victoria, British Columbia; Calgary, Alberta; Beauval, Saskatchewan; Hamilton, Six Nations

Public Safety committee   before at a reception in Mumbai and a picture of his invitation to the upcoming Delhi reception started to circulate in the Indian media. At 7:46 p.m., the CBC published a story with these pictures. That was the first article about this in Canada. Mr. Atwal's invitation was rescinded

Business of Supply   in Canadian foreign relations, while others in the government, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, claimed that the invitation was an “honest mistake” on the part of the Canadian government, the House call upon the Prime Minister to instruct his National Security Advisor, Daniel

Business of Supply   to inform the media that somehow the Jaspal Atwal affair was a rogue conspiracy within the Indian government to make the Prime Minister's trip look bad. That is the basis. It is not about the infomercial that the hon. member just mentioned. Does the hon. member believe the media is more

Business of Supply   is giving two different responses that simply do not mix. One cannot happen without the other. Either it was a conspiracy by the Indian government or it was an honest mistake, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs has said. It has to be one or the other, and it cannot be both. Until

Indigenous Peoples and Canada's Justice System  , we worked with the former aboriginal affairs minister, John Duncan, for two to three years in our city, and the Whitecap Dakota First Nation. The graduation rates for indigenous students in this country are deplorable. What are we going to do? There are two things we can do. We

Industry committee   by a factor of about seven. We recently took DSL Internet to Kendal, Saskatchewan, a village of 77 people. While Kendal is in the middle of productive farmland, with other towns and villages dotting the highway every 13 kilometres, the biggest town around is Indian Head, with 1,900