Mandy Gull-Masty

Mr. Speaker, this critical service is available, but we want to be sure that service providers are able to respond to clients' needs, whether they are living in a city or providing a service from another province. We want to be sure that they are able to provide the best and most adequate service to the clients who are going to them and that they are able to be served in the spaces they live in. [more]

Mr. Speaker, I want to first sincerely congratulate Tribal Chief Arkan and the Saskatoon Tribal Council on a historic milestone, reclaiming what has always been theirs: the authority to make decisions for their children. This landmark regional agreement, Māmowōhkamātowin, will see $269 million deployed over seven years, which will put predictable, flexible funding where communities need it the [more]

Madam Speaker, I want to inform my colleague that, in government, we have to do the work of responding and ensuring that the government fully represents all of the positions that are presented to it, and while we do this incredible work, we are also making decisions to ensure that the historic investment that we have put forward in this space will meet their needs. Every community that has met [more]

Madam Speaker, I took the time to study things and speak with the communities. One very important aspect of this bill is the government's historic investment to ensure that the communities benefiting from this bill have all the essentials, including funds to invest in the work involved in lifting boil water advisories.

Madam Speaker, I want to remind my colleague that, while he speaks of big, shiny announcements, there are 38 communities waiting for this work to be done, such as Kashechewan, which this year had to evacuate because of major infiltration in its water system. There are communities hoping to do this work, and they need this valuable resource. We are working on this law in partnership with those [more]

Madam Speaker, we have to take into consideration that the work we do here is not only about water system infrastructure but also about giving communities the power, the resource and the jurisdiction over deciding how they are going to access that. It is not only about how they are doing the work to harmonize their relationship with their environment, protect necessary resources and practise [more]

Madam Speaker, this bill is the result of six years of work by the first nations themselves. The information was provided by the communities themselves. I really took the time to study all of the evidence presented and to talk to many people who are affected by the current advisories. One of the things my colleague really needs to try to understand is that the gradual implementation of the right [more]

C-37 Madam Speaker, Billis seeking, first and foremost, to establish the minimum standards that are in place for many residents in ridings that are not first nations communities. This is the base. If first nations communities want to do the additional work to define what that standard should be for them, they are able to do that, and we would support them through Bill C-37.