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Jaime Battiste

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 1, 2023
Context: Subject Matter of Bill C-45, An Act to amend the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (INAN) - May/1/23
Mr. Jaime Battiste (Sydney—Victoria, Lib.)
  • 04:47:56 p.m.
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Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to start off by thanking all the members who are here presenting today. As a first nation who lives in a first nations community, you're doing a lot of the hard work that is allowing us to view things in a different way and to make progress in the way first nations want to do it, in a self-determining, optional way. I frequently go to powwows where I'll see a popular shirt that says “Burn sage, sweetgrass and the Indian Act”. It's popular out there, but I don't think a lot of communities know that there is the ability to move away from the Indian Act. What we're trying to do, in a lot of ways, is move away from the Indian Act. There are some participating communities that have decided to do this optionally. Can you explain which parts of this proposed legislation would change that and give your quick pitch—as part of this board—to the communities out there that are listening as to why they should be doing this for their communities? I'll start off with Manny and then maybe turn it to Ernie.
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Context: Subject Matter of Bill C-45, An Act to amend the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (INAN) - May/1/23
Mr. Jaime Battiste
  • 04:50:55 p.m.
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Manny, you said in your closing statement that what your father passed down to you was that we must be able to move at the speed of business. Can you expand on that and why that is important for first nations communities?
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Context: Subject Matter of Bill C-45, An Act to amend the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (INAN) - May/1/23
Mr. Jaime Battiste
  • 05:18:46 p.m.
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Thank you. I'm inspired by your whole notion of moving at the speed of business. Unfortunately, we move at the speed of government, but every so often we have legislation where we have all parties on side and we see a piece of legislation where it seems that there's consensus and a lot of people are on board. We have various mechanisms within the House of Commons where we can speed up legislation when we have unanimous consent from all parties in the House of Commons. If we could do that for this, do you believe that the legislation that's there right now has satisfied your organizations to the point where you'd like to see its passage sped up through a unanimous consent motion, if we can get that?
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Context: Subject Matter of Bill C-45, An Act to amend the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (INAN) - May/1/23
Mr. Jaime Battiste
  • 05:20:21 p.m.
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I'm wondering if any of the leaders would object to that. Is there consensus that what Manny has just said is reflective of the wishes of the organizations?
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Context: Subject Matter of Bill C-45, An Act to amend the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (INAN) - May/1/23
Mr. Jaime Battiste
  • 05:22:08 p.m.
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Thank you. I have no further questions. Leave it with us. We'll start the discussions on how we can try to speed this up.
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