Environment committee   northern and first nation housing. There's been a long-standing problem. Essentially, it has been the lowest-cost bid that has won and we have ended up with plywood housing. Have you had a role in saying, and has the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development or whoever

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the court cases Ahousaht Indian Band and Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 BCSC 1494; Ahousaht Indian Band and Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2011 BCCA 237; Ahousaht Indian Band and Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), (29 March 2012) SCC File

Indigenous Affairs   for leave to appeal but sent the case back to the B.C. Court of Appeal for re-examination, in light of the recent court ruling of the Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band v. Canada. Later, in July 2013, the B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed that the nations have aboriginal rights

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the Senate bill, Bill S-3amends the Indian Act to eliminate sex-based inequities in registration. Private member's billC-262 is an act to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Truth

Government Operations committee   the benefit of the doubt. There was a silo thing happening before, and now apparently departments are talking. Indian Affairs, Industry Canada, and others are starting to talk and figure out how to move the yardsticks ahead. I don't want to speak for him at all, but what I gather

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think one of those would be to review the B.C. wildfire agreement as well as the B.C. first nations emergency management services agreement with Indian Affairs, and to figure out in some detail on the operational side how to make it work, from the good ideas here in the MOU

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  , Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development in British Columbia. I requested that the head of Indian Affairs in the region, the regional director general, Catherine Lappe, attend as well, because there was no federal presence on these matters involving the first nation

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   jurisdiction was introduced in 1983, when Indian Affairs downloaded a lot of the construction practices to first nations. They said, “Here you go. You are now the authority having jurisdiction.” One of the challenges we find is that a lot of the first nations don't really understand what

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  . It was a pilot project put together with funding mostly from Indian Affairs and some funding from CMHC. Then in 2003 we started FNNBOA, the First Nations National Building Officers Association. In the first five years we couldn't spend all of the money you guys gave us in both organizations

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   plans to hold treaty negotiations the following spring, the first nations of the region became increasingly angry over the influx of miners. As the Ottawa Citizen reported: There are 500 Indians camped at Fort St. John who refuse to let police and miners go further north until

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   was a racist and a sexist. When he was prime minister, a lot of these policies got their teeth and started affecting the aboriginal communities—in particular, the Indian women. As for the bureaucrats, Duncan Campbell Scott was a very famous bureaucrat who worked very hard throughout his

Operation UNIFIER  . There is a Holodomor travelling exposition, but there is also the Bitter Harvest film. I encourage people see it in the theatres. It talks about the crisis that Ukraine suffered in the past and continues to suffer. A new play has been produced in Alberta, with the support of St. John's Institute

Government Operations committee  Within Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, at our centre for integrity, values and conflict resolution, I am supported by three staff who assist me in receiving complaints. When my staff believe there is something that could meet the definition of a wrongdoing under

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for inviting us. This gives me an opportunity to speak to you about the enforcement of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act within the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. My name is Line Lamothe and I am the acting director

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   Act, we are continuing the approach of the colonizer, so well summed up in this statement by Duncan Campbell Scott, then deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs. He said this in 1920: Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been