“Mr. Speaker, it has been a real pleasure to hear the speech of my colleague, and I deeply appreciate his work for first nations. As everybody know, I am very proud to be a member of the House, because I represent Wendake, in my riding, and I am very proud to have been the representative of its people for the last 18 years here in the House of Commons and before that in the national assembly. Let me remind members that many years ago, on June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Harper apologized for the crimes that had been done at the residential schools, but a lot of things have not been done yet, especially one of the key elements in our policy when we talk about the first nations as partners in prosperity. Could the member explain to Canadians what we mean when we are using the words “partners in prosperity” with respect to first nations?”
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Claims 54%Procedure 6%Reasoning 40%
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 32 wordsin this context, we are talking about prosperity if we are to build energy projects pretty much anywhere in the country, but mostly we are focused on expanding opportunities to the Pacific.Procedure · 10 wordsThat is a lot of what we are talking about.ProcedureClaims · 21 wordsA lot of these projects, pretty much all of them, run through first nations land, either treaty territory or land claims.Reasoning · 42 wordsTherefore, if we are going to build in that direction, out west, we need to ensure that consultation is done properly, ensure that first nations are active partners in projects and ensure that they are receiving benefits through jobs, impact benefit agreements; Claims · 34 wordswhat we were proposing before the election, the resource charge; 1and transferring and ceding tax room on the federal level, providing the opportunity for the companies to pay the nations directly for those taxes.2Reasoning · 23 wordsWe need to ensure that they are getting all benefits available to them, to ensure that they share in the prosperity of all.
