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View Jaime Battiste Profile
Lib. (NS)
I'm hoping to come to a consensus on this, the blanket exercise. If it's not done with consensus and it isn't done by all of us who want to learn, who want to share, who want to take part in something that helps us over the next two years with the issues that we're going to discuss, then I would take it off the floor. I want to see that it's done by consensus or not done at all.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
I have Mr. Viersen and Ms. Qaqqaq.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I was just going to make the point that the second motion we passed here was that there be a subcommittee on agenda and procedure. All this discussion that we're having right now is for that committee, the subcommittee on agenda and procedure. It's supposed to set the agenda for our meetings going forward. That's the appropriate place for this discussion.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
We'll hear Ms. Qaqqaq and then Mr. Zimmer.
View Mumilaaq Qaqqaq Profile
NDP (NU)
View Mumilaaq Qaqqaq Profile
2020-02-18 12:43
Thank you. If we're going to start off in a good way, I don't think a good way to start off is an exercise that doesn't include all indigenous groups and solely focuses on first nations individuals. Also, it's not a ceremony. It's an exercise, and that's what I mean when we're talking about tokenism, and looking to me—again, this is what I'm trying to say—is like me asking you, with whatever your background is, to do work that I can also contribute to.
To ask me for a list of recommendations, sure, I'm okay to do that, but my point is that we all need to make a commitment to being invested in learning. In saying that, I don't think it's a good way to start off, with an exercise that focuses on first nations groups and excludes Inuit and Métis, so I don't agree with doing the exercise.
Thank you.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Bob Zimmer Profile
CPC (BC)
I think we want to support what your intent is. Again, we just don't want to cause an offence unintentionally. We like where you're going for that purpose.
Maybe you can explain—
View Jaime Battiste Profile
Lib. (NS)
I move to withdraw. If the NDP does not support training as a starting point for discussion on indigenous history, then I don't need to move forward on it. I will respect Ms. Qaqqaq's thoughts on this, and perhaps we'll have a conversation some other time and we can come back to the committee with some kind of consensus on an appropriate mechanism that would take into consideration all aboriginal peoples in Canada—Inuit, Métis and first nations.
So with that, I withdraw.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Mumilaaq Qaqqaq Profile
NDP (NU)
View Mumilaaq Qaqqaq Profile
2020-02-18 12:45
I just have one comment. It's not that I don't agree with exercises, and this is where I'm already starting to feel outed in a lot of ways. It's that we don't start with this particular exercise, that we start with something all-inclusive, and that might mean reading a chapter from the truth and reconciliation report or memorizing some recommendations from it. I'm not saying I don't agree with doing an exercise. I'm saying not this one in particular.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
What we're faced with, committee, is two very important approaches to our committee work, which include setting us off on a path that begins with knowledge of first nations and Inuit indigenous people, and I'm wondering whether there's material or a way that we can discuss maybe at the subcommittee level as to what those approaches might be.
I think I'll leave it at that and move to the subcommittee.
Mr. Zimmer, you have a comment.
View Bob Zimmer Profile
CPC (BC)
I would make one recommendation—I'm sure this will happen anyway—that Mr. Battiste and the member from the NDP get together to discuss a best way forward in terms of a motion.
I'm certain we'd be willing to look at it from our side. Again, we support what the intent is, absolutely.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
The matter will go to the subcommittee.
With regard to future meetings, we have the subcommittee for our future meeting.
With that and no further comments, this meeting is adjourned.
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