Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I move: That the membership of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be amended as follows: Brad Butt for Scott Armstrong; Ted Opitz for Parm Gill; Blake Richards for Costas Menegakis; and Kevin Lamoureux for Dominic LeBlanc

First Nations Elections Act  . The alternative is to modernize the most damaging provisions of the Indian Act. This could be achieved not by updating the Indian Act itself but by equipping first nations with new tools and mechanisms to manage their affairs. That is how we could creation conditions that enable sustainable

First Nations Elections Act   ensure that Bill S-6 does not give the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs new powers that go against the opt-in nature of this legislation. For first nations that currently hold elections under the Indian Act, this opt-in legislation contains many improvements to the election process

Navigable Waters Protection Act   deemed worthy of protection. According to David Livingstone, former director of Indian and Northern Affairs' water division: Life in the North has always revolved around water in an intimate way that many other jurisdictions have lost. The value of water in the North is the same

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   telling, very insulting and very racist. I'm here to tell you that racism still exists today. It exists in this room. It exists in the Department of Indian Affairs. It exists in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. It exists where I live in Chilliwack. That same attitude is alive

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee   and the board of directors have the same goal in this exercise. We want to work in partnership and, of course, collaborate with this committee and the aboriginal affairs working group because we know for sure that since 1974, we have been developing that expertise on family violence, elders

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act   “no”. The government's own ministerial representative on matrimonial real property on reserve, Wendy Grant-John, noted in her report: The viability and effectiveness of any legislative framework will also depend on necessary financial resources being made available for implementation of non

Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band  , and that is what this motion is about. In the fall of 2011, in what a government release deemed an historic occasion, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs granted official Indian status to the Newfoundland Mi'kmaq. The Newfoundland Mi'kmaq had been denied any claim to aboriginal title ever

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   develop these regulations. Back in April 2012, the former minister, Mr. John Duncan, sent a letter to all chiefs and band councils confirming that our government will provide the funds needed for eligible activities. We have already, for example, provided funding to the Atlantic

Status of Women committee  -John, who was the minister's special representative on this file in 2006-2007. It is sad to see that the recommendations did not bear fruit, were not implemented. You have there a very good document, which was a stepping stone for consultation. I think it would be appropriate

Status of Women committee   and part of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians. We live near Belleville, Ontario. Our current membership is 9,053 members. Our people live on just about every continent in the world. Since the passage of the McIvor legislation, we have seen our membership increase by 819

Status of Women committee   court will administer this legislation? The court that flies into Berens River? Where will the Berens River First Nation get money to develop and implement its own laws. If the legislation is out of subsection 91(24), which it is, then it's subject to the Minister of Indian Affairs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   by strengthening their paternalistic authority, and it reaches the goal of termination and assimilation as stated by John A. Macdonald, the original Prime Minister. I would like to disregard amendment in that bill itself. Replacement is something that to a certain extent I probably would

Fisheries committee  In terms of sovereignty, there could be other issues involving such agencies as Defence and PMO and Indian Affairs.

Business of Supply   in the modern 20th century. If we look at the Indian affairs website on Treaty 9, it is amazing. The very first line on the history of Treaty 9 begins with the opening statement, “We ask you to help us”, as though the first nations were hoping that the Indian affairs bureaucrats were going