Braedon Clark

S-212, An Act respecting a national strategy for children and youth in Canada moved that Bill, be read for the first time. S-212, An Act respecting a national strategy for children and youth in Canada He said: Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to introduce in the House Bill. I would like to thank Senator Moodie for introducing this important legislation in the Senate and for her [more]

Okay. I'm also curious about certain projects. Are there any specific projects that may or may not be on the MPO list where first nations are seeing some barriers to access? Also, what can we do as a government to make sure that those barriers are lowered and that groups can participate?

Yes. C-5 Prime Minister We talked about Bill, and as the national chief mentioned, obviously, there were issues in terms of how that was moved through. That was in June. I know that since that time, theand others have met with the national chief and other leaders on a couple of occasions. Could you summarize the evolution of that process over the last nine or 10 months, and where we can keep [more]

Excellent. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. National Chief, thank you very much for being here. To all of our guests and witnesses today, it's very much appreciated. In your opening statement, National Chief, you gave an excellent summary of the historical context, obligations and potential of the projects that are currently before the government and those that could come forward in the next [more]

Right. I think those are certainly fair points; there's no question about that. The indigenous loan guarantee program, as you know, went from $5 billion to $10 billion. Correct me if I'm not interpreting what you said correctly, but I think that's a very useful tool for communities that may have the capacity or the ability to take on a complex undertaking. However, there's another level that is [more]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Ms. Pruden, for being here. I think you said earlier that you're in Edmonton. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I assume that one of the reasons you're there is that yesterday your organization signed an MOU with the Northwest Territory Métis Nation. Is that correct?

That's excellent. I wanted to congratulate you on that, because obviously it's a big deal to get to that stage. Congratulations. I wanted to touch on something you've mentioned a couple of times previously and in your opening statement as well, which is around distinctions-based funding and some issues you see there. Could you expand on that a bit and explain to the committee what precisely that [more]

Yes, absolutely. You mentioned the indigenous loan guarantee program a couple of times as well, which is up to $10 billion now. This is obviously great news. From a standpoint of distinctions-based funding, could you walk me through what that would look like, practically speaking? If there's a project going through the Major Projects Office or the indigenous loan guarantee program, how would [more]