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View Tamara Jansen Profile
CPC (BC)
I have a point of order.
It's probably not quite a point of order, but what is the name of that book that Chief Jules wrote? I'd like to put that on my Christmas list.
View Pierre Poilievre Profile
CPC (ON)
Yes, it's called Beyond the Indian Act, and Chief Jules wrote the forward to the book.
It is absolutely a must-read for everybody—Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights.
View Julie Dzerowicz Profile
Lib. (ON)
Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I only have 2.5 minutes and two questions, so I am going to be cutting people off right away.
Mr. Viau, you have my first question.
It is extraordinarily important to the residents in my riding of Davenport that we eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as quickly as possible. I agree with them on that. You have asked, in one of your recommendations, for a road map to eliminate ineffective fossil fuel subsidies.
Ignoring any supports for diesel in the north, and any dollars that might go to the oil and gas sector for any innovations or for reducing carbon emissions, would you be able to provide this committee with recommendations of which fossil fuel subsidies you think we should be eliminating as soon as possible?
I'll get you to comment. I don't expect you to have that list right now, but would you be willing to do that and submit that to the committee?
Marc-André Viau
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Marc-André Viau
2020-12-11 15:09
Yes, certainly. We and our partners have these lists. We'll be happy to send them to you.
View Julie Dzerowicz Profile
Lib. (ON)
Okay. Thank you so much.
My second question is for Ms. Eaton. Thank you so much for your presentation today.
One of the hardest things for me to address is at the doors in the riding, when I go door-to-door in my riding of Davenport and hear about the great need right across the spectrum. It is about the mental health needs for our children, for our youth, as well as for adults. The need is extraordinary and it's huge.
A couple of years ago, we gave an additional $2 billion at the federal level down to the provinces. I've not been able to find it translated into anything within my Davenport riding. My sense is that we will be providing far more dollars in the future. Assuming that we keep with the current structure, we're going to be providing additional dollars federally to the provinces.
What advice would you have for us when we're sending down the next tranche of federal dollars to the provinces to ensure that it gets to where it needs to go?
Margaret Eaton
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Margaret Eaton
2020-12-11 15:10
That is a huge issue. We are unsure where that funding went as well.
In the last mandate letter for the Minister of Health, the minister was urged to set standards in mental health. In doing that, I believe the government was trying to get a handle on what actually was sent out specifically for mental health and trying to ask whether it could set some level—in which case, it would know that the funding would be going to help create that standard so that there would be consistency of care and access across the country.
I believe that urging the government to fulfill that aspect of the mandate letter would be very important.
There is also opportunity, I believe, for the federal government—
View Michael McLeod Profile
Lib. (NT)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Jeff from CHRA.
First of all, I really appreciated hearing his comments on housing and the piece on urban, rural and northern housing.
I was involved in making a request to the HUMA committee to study the issue of urban and rural indigenous housing in northern communities. I represent the Northwest Territories, and over half the people I represent are indigenous. However, the indigenous housing announcements don't apply to us in the Northwest Territories for the most part because we don't have national indigenous organizations that represent us, so we don't fit anywhere. It was certainly a missing piece, as you stated.
Even though we are looking at urban, rural and northern funding, we're still a little bit nervous because we're packaged up with a lot of the big municipalities or a lot of the big cities. We think we probably would still need a carve-out to ensure that we get a share of the money.
Mr. Morrison, I want you to talk about the urban, rural and northern program we need, and I also want you to talk a bit about the SGIGs, the self-governing indigenous governments, that also didn't fit anywhere in the funding for indigenous housing.
Jeff Morrison
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Jeff Morrison
2020-12-11 15:12
Of course, as you know, in the national housing strategy there was money set aside for what is called “on reserve”, which was essentially agreements made between the Assembly of First Nations, ITK and the Métis National Council. In that respect, there was some solid governance and input from those three groups. However, what was left out, as you point out correctly, were the roughly 80% of indigenous peoples living in urban, rural and, of course, as you know, northern settings.
We have within our organization an indigenous caucus made up of approximately 100 indigenous housing providers. They have decades of expertise in delivering housing to indigenous peoples in those settings. We've developed a framework, which we call our “for indigenous by indigenous strategy”, or FIBI strategy. We've talked to your colleagues on the HUMA committee about that. It is absolutely crucial that there be a component, a set-aside, for northern indigenous communities and housing providers, because, Mr. McLeod, as you know much better than I do, housing in the north is in an absolutely deplorable state.
I heard in your last panel a mayor from, I believe, Nunavut or the NWT talk about housing in her communities. I can tell you that today I learned the board member from the Northwest Territories on my board, who lives in Arviat, just came down with COVID, and sadly, because she lives in a very overcrowded housing unit in Arviat, most of the members of her family have also come down with COVID.
It's a very sad situation, and we hope that through a dedicated urban-rural northern strategy, indigenous peoples in these regions not only will have access to the funding and supports, but can play a key role in the governance and oversight of those funds.
View Wayne Easter Profile
Lib. (PE)
If I could come back to committee members for a minute, as both Gabriel and Peter mentioned, there was no agreement reached. There was no agreement on the motion in the House for this committee, or other committees, to meet next week in a virtual Parliament.
Basically, we had to figure out how to finalize a report for early February.
Normally we have a motion with briefing instructions, which basically sets out the instructions for the analysts, deadlines for recommendations and how they go out to members, and dissenting reports, etc.
As well, I should also mention that we had already invited witnesses for Monday. The clerk had a number of witnesses on an agenda for Monday. We will have to call them. A number of them—I'm not sure if it's all of them—have already sent in speaking points on what they would have said when appearing before the committee. We may want to consider if those remarks can still be taken in and be translated and forwarded to committee members.
I will basically ask people where they think we should go. My suggestion would be that we basically ask the analysts to pull up the documentation along the lines that we talked about before, from the submissions prior to August 15, from the COVID-19 witnesses whom we've heard from—a lot of them—and from the witnesses who appeared before committee, and put that in a report along the lines we talked about earlier and feed it out to committee members.
I believe the House meets on January 25, and we could meet as early as possible then and get to recommendations and come to some conclusions on that, and table a report.
In any event, we'll go to Mr. Julian, first. For whomever wants to be on the list, I'll go to the “participants” section of Zoom and you can either raise your hand or raise it like this. There aren't many of us here.
Mr. Julian.
View Peter Julian Profile
NDP (BC)
Mr. Chair, I would like to propose that we direct our excellent analysts to start preparing the pre-budget report using the testimony on COVID-19, the briefings that we received over the course of the last few months, the submissions—I think there were 800—as well as testimony received during the pre-budget hearings, and any speaking notes or additional information that was provided, including speaking notes from cancelled witnesses.
It's a little inelegant, how I phrased it, but I would like to move that.
View Wayne Easter Profile
Lib. (PE)
Do we need to move it, or can we just go to an agreement? I think we can just go to an agreement on that.
View Peter Julian Profile
NDP (BC)
In speaking to it, it is what it is. It's unfortunate. I assume that we'll be able to meet virtually once we get past the week of January 25, but there's no mechanism in place, now that the House has adjourned, to do it prior to that. We certainly can't meet physically, because we would have to fall back to the old physical meetings. We can't have 12 people in any room on Parliament Hill with the appropriate social distancing.
Directing the analysts to do that, and coming back to this in the week of January 25 would mean that we would already have a report, and potentially even be able to provide feedback so that when we get together, hopefully, we can submit our dissenting or complementary opinions as well, and hopefully get it to the House in a pretty forthright way.
View Wayne Easter Profile
Lib. (PE)
I would suggest that maybe in the meantime, once they get the report, the various parties think about what kind of recommendations they might want to get in writing fairly rapidly. We really do need to have this report tabled prior to February 15, I would think, for it to have input.
Do any others want to speak or agree or disagree?
We'll go to Mr. Poilievre and then Ms. Jansen.
View Pierre Poilievre Profile
CPC (ON)
As part of the budget process, we need as much information as humanly possible, including the sources of funding the government is receiving.
I have therefore proposed a motion that I know will not be controversial because, in fact, the finance minister asked me to bring it forward. When I asked her about the bond purchases of the Bank of Canada, she said that I should direct those questions to the Bank of Canada. That's why I am bringing forward this motion, which I have given appropriate notice for. The committee has had it in its possession now for 72 hours.
It simply asks for information on the costs of the purchases and sales of government bonds to bring transparency to that. This is a $400-billion program and we have very few details. When I asked the minister, she told me to ask the Bank of Canada, so this motion does exactly that.
I know I will get unanimous support for this motion from Liberals, given that I am doing precisely what the minister asked.
I wonder if I can move that motion now?
View Wayne Easter Profile
Lib. (PE)
We don't have a motion on the floor. We're working on an agreement, so you do have the right to move a motion.
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