First Nations Elections Act   nations with the electoral system currently provided for in the Indian Act. The problems allowed by the Indian Act's lack of clarity could be exceptionally damaging. Let me give the words used by Mr. John Paul, executive director of the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations

Committees of the House   to the membership of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, the Order of the House adopted on Tuesday, December 3, 2013, shall only take effect on February 24, 2014. (Motion agreed to)

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I move: That in relation to its study on the Northwest Territories Devolution Act, seven members of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development be authorized to travel to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in the Winter of 2014

Northwest Territories Devolution Act   that we are debating today, it is significant that the Government of the Northwest Territories has been seeking devolution for a long time. When I was the minister of aboriginal affairs and northern development, this became very much a mission along with the Premier of the Northwest

Northwest Territories Devolution Act  , the Territorial Lands Act, the Dominion Water Power Act, the Divorce Act, the Privacy Act, the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act, the National Energy Board Act, the Northern Pipeline Act, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Act, the Canadian Human Rights Act

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, as it then was, doing economic development as a senior lands and management leasing officer. I also did a number of additions to reserve. In 1999 I went into private practice. I thought it was going to be easier than working for the department

Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act  Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it you shall find agreement to apply the outcome of this vote to the next vote.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   aboriginal affairs critic, we heard from AFN about the hard work you're doing, and you're to be commended—especially for bending over backwards in your consultation, which doesn't always happen. I heard you clearly: there seems to be strong support for being able to move to four-year

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   nations leadership, the Atlantic Policy Congress, and through the hands of now four ministers of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. I want to acknowledge and thank those former ministers, the Hon. Jim Prentice, the Hon. Chuck Strahl, and the Hon. John Duncan, and now the Hon

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   is gaining interest among many of our first nations. I'm sure John will speak to this point, which is that we're in the perpetual motion of the election mode throughout first nations. Every month, I believe it is, it continues. It's like a bad nightmare. I will speak to some

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   the term of office under the Indian Act election system from two years to four years. As we continued to discuss this change, both amongst ourselves and with what was then the Department of Indian Affairs, we realized that the Indian Act election system had other fundamental weaknesses

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , Nycole Turmel, and the Chief Government Whip, the hon. John Duncan. Minister Duncan and Madam Turmel are the spokespeople for the board and, again, there you'll see the balance that is kept in terms of the approach of the board in its communications. The board speaks with one voice

Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act   every aspect of life for people living on reserve. In July 2011 at the annual meeting of the Assembly of First Nations, National Chief Shawn Atleo said it was time to set aside the Indian Act and dismantle the Department of Indian Affairs to create two smaller departments, one

Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act   in the House that does not meet those six criteria, very ably outlined by Wendy Grant-John for the then-minister of Aboriginal Affairs. There are international conventions around proposals for what consultations should look like in a domestic setting. This is from Convention No. 169 from

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE AND ITS COMMITTEES   and that was referred to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. That is what I will be addressing in my remarks today. I am going to speak briefly, to allow for some questions. There are currently 240 first nations that are under the Indian Act when it comes