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    "time": "2013-04-19 13:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014Baie James, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3280190\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is a great honour, as always, to rise in the House to speak on behalf of the people of Timmins\u2014James Bay, particularly on this important New Democrat motion about restoring the nation-to-nation relationship with first nation people. I will be sharing my time with the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170255\" href=\"/politicians/alexandrine-latendresse/\" title=\"Alexandrine Latendresse\">Louis-Saint-Laurent</a>. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280191\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is very important that the debate comes this week, when we have numerous issues showing us the fundamental failure of Canadians to live up to that relationship, such as at Neskantaga, where we have a horrific suicide crisis. I have seen the suicide crisis in James Bay and the damage that it does psychologically, physically and spiritually to people. I note that Neskantaga in English means Fort Hope. It seems so ironic that a community so devastated is a place called Fort Hope. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280192\" data-originallang=\"en\">This week, nine premiers came forward and asked the Conservative government for an inquiry into the hundreds of murdered and missing women and the government continued to turn a deaf ear. In its eyes, perhaps there is one set of victims it will listen to, but it continues to stonewall the hundreds of missing first nations young women across the country. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280193\" data-originallang=\"en\">This week the government continues its court case against Cindy Blackstock. It spied on a woman who was speaking out on the issue of education and child rights for first nation children. This is at a time when there are now more children being held in foster care and being taken away from their families than at the height of the residential schools. This shows us the broken relationship that we need to restore. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280194\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to speak today about Treaty 9, because that is the region I represent, the height of land in northern Ontario. I know in the media, when we had the Attiwapiskat housing crisis, there was the sense of \u201cWe won, they lost\u201d. That seems to be the general public view of the treaty, that it was some kind of surrender, or giving up.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280195\" data-originallang=\"en\"> However, until we understand the story of the treaty, we do not really understand why the relationship with first nation people has gone so wrong. We would not understand why people like Grand Chief Stan Louttit and Chief Theresa Spence speak so much about Treaty 9. Their grandfathers signed that treaty. This is not ancient history. This is the beginning of what went wrong in the modern 20th century.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280196\" data-originallang=\"en\">If we look at the Indian affairs website on Treaty 9, it is amazing. The very first line on the history of Treaty 9 begins with the opening statement, \u201cWe ask you to help us\u201d, as though the first nations were hoping that the Indian affairs bureaucrats were going to come up and make everything right. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280197\" data-originallang=\"en\">What was being spoken about in the late 1800s was the incursion by the white settlers into first nations lands, stripping the lands of their basic resources and the attempt by the people to define some rules on the ground. They were not calling on Indian affairs to come up and take their land and put them on a reserve. They were saying that their fundamental rights, which they never extinguished, were under attack. They were under attack by CP Rail. They were under attack by the white settlers who were trying to flood the communities with alcohol, while taking away the basic hunting rights.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280198\" data-originallang=\"en\"> What was interesting also was the issue of resource development. In December 1901, the Hudson Bay Company Osnaburgh House, forwarded a petition saying \u201cFor the past two or three years exploration for minerals has been carried on in the country contiguous to Lake St. Joseph\u201d. They asked to meet with His Majesty's officials to discuss what was happening in terms of mineral exploration \"as white men are already building upon land which we desire to retain\".</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280199\" data-originallang=\"en\">In 1903, the Geological Survey of Canada was turned away by the chief of the Crane Band, who said it had no right to come and explore without the express consent of first nations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280200\" data-originallang=\"en\">Back in 1872, near Jackfish Lake, Chief Blackstone shut down gold development, saying they had no right to be there.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280201\" data-originallang=\"en\">Fast forward to the 21st century when we saw KI, in northwestern Ontario, kick out a junior mining company that refused to consult the Wahgoshig First Nation in my area. The company said that it was not their job to look for Indian arrowheads, that is was a mining exploration company. The refusal to consult today has resulted in the first nations taking the same actions that their ancestors took over a hundred years ago.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280202\" data-originallang=\"en\">When the treaty commissioners came forward, it was never about the surrender of land, it was about ensuring that the land was going to be used in a fair and equitable manner, which was not happening. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280203\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is interesting that Indian Affairs, in its history, blames Ontario. It states:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3280204\" data-originallang=\"en\"> It was Ontario which had licensed the surveyors and mining exploration parties the Indian people were complaining about to federal officials. And, as the Cree and Ojibwa were later to discover, it was Ontario which had already given out timber licenses to lands they wished to reserve for themselves. If the incursion of whites was the gun pointed at the head of the Indian people, Ontario's finger was on the trigger. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3280205\" data-originallang=\"en\">That is the official history from the Indian Affairs point of view.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280206\" data-originallang=\"en\">Certainly we know that across the Prairies, Ontario and Quebec, the provinces treated the first nations people as non-existent. They were a federal responsibility. Hence, they did not exist, and the provinces could do whatever they wanted. However, in the case of Treaty No. 9, the issue was that they were trying to get some certainty with respect to the land. Ontario took the hard line. It said that it would not allow a reserve to have any kind of hydro development potential, period. The first nations were going to get the land that was absolutely worthless. The fact is, it did not tell the people in Treaty No. 9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280207\" data-originallang=\"en\">When the commissioners came forward in 1905-06 across the upper lakes, they made oral promises to the people, because this was not a written culture. Duncan Scott, the treaty commissioner, knew that no negotiation was going to take place, because Ontario said that if it did not get everything it wanted, it did not care what the first nations did. It was just going to apply. It was going in with a gun to the heads of the first nations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280208\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is interesting that when the people landed in Fort Hope, where today we have the huge suicide epidemic, Chief Moonias stood up and said to the people that the white guys were not giving them money for nothing. If they were offering money, they were taking something substantial away from them. That is what he was warning the people, and the commissioners had to give the people a story. They said that the people were going to get medical coverage and schools. The issue of schooling was very important to people on the James Bay coast. The Cree communities knew that they needed education as a way to address the fact that their communities were in crisis. They knew that the world was changing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280209\" data-originallang=\"en\">Daniel MacMartin's diary has only recently come to light. He was with the commissioners as they went across northern Ontario in 1905 and 1906. Daniel MacMartin said that the commissioners had to sweeten the deal verbally, but they did not put any of it in writing. What the people were told they were signing was completely different from what they actually signed onto. Later, of course, government leaders said that they had surrendered the land. It was all there on the page in black and white, but that was not the verbal commitment made.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280210\" data-originallang=\"en\"> That was the record of the so-called honour of the Crown for the following 100 years. I have seen it myself. I saw it in Barriere Lake, where the Liberal government signed an agreement with the community, and as soon as the agreement was signed, they walked away. I saw it in Kashechewan First Nation, where we sat down with the then Liberal government. We had an agreement to rebuild the community, and we sat down to look at the paper to have the whole commitment they had made verbally. I remember saying to the chief that none of the promises were on the paper, and we were told that they could trust the honour of the Crown. We know what happened to that. So much for the agreement with Kashechewan, but it took the present Conservative government to rip up that agreement. That was the so-called honour of the Crown. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280211\" data-originallang=\"en\">Daniel MacMartin said that the people were misled. The commissioners had to mislead them to get them to sign off.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280212\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is fascinating, and really deeply disturbing, that it was Duncan Scott who led the Treaty No. 9 negotiations. The people who were coming to him said that they understood that their way of life was under threat. They said that they would make an agreement if he promised that their children would get an education. Duncan Scott had a plan for their education all right; it was the residential schools. Duncan Scott said that the residential schools had to be mandatory, because it was to \u201cget rid of the Indian problem... to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed\u201d. This was about a genocidal policy. However it is said, it was about the destruction of the first nations people. They went into those communities, misrepresented themselves and punished those communities with the residential schools, which nearly broke them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280213\" data-originallang=\"en\"> One hundred years later, history is calling on us. It is knocking on the door of this House of Commons saying that it is time to restore that broken relationship, show that there is honour in the Crown and ensure that the first nations people are treated with the rights and dignities they have as the original first nations people, who never extinguished their rights in this country.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3280190\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, comme toujours, c'est pour moi un grand honneur de prendre la parole \u00e0 la Chambre au nom des gens de Timmins\u2014Baie James, particuli\u00e8rement au sujet de cette importante motion n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate demandant le r\u00e9tablissement de la relation de nation \u00e0 nation avec les peuples des Premi\u00e8res Nations. Je partagerai mon temps de parole avec la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"170255\" href=\"/politicians/alexandrine-latendresse/\" title=\"Alexandrine Latendresse\">Louis-Saint-Laurent</a>. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280191\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est opportun de tenir ce d\u00e9bat cette semaine, puisque nous avons pris connaissance ces derniers jours de nombreux probl\u00e8mes illustrant \u00e0 quel point les Canadiens n'ont fondamentalement pas su honorer cette relation, notamment l'horrible vague de suicides \u00e0 Neskantaga. Je me rappelle de la vague de suicides \u00e0 la Baie-James et des s\u00e9quelles psychologiques, physiques et spirituelles qu'elle a caus\u00e9es \u00e0 la population. En passant, Neskantaga signifie \u00ab fort de l'espoir \u00bb. Il semble si ironique qu'une collectivit\u00e9 ainsi d\u00e9vast\u00e9e s'appelle \u00ab fort de l'espoir \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280192\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cette semaine, neuf premiers ministres ont joint leur voix pour demander au gouvernement conservateur de mener une enqu\u00eate publique sur les centaines de femmes assassin\u00e9es et disparues, mais le gouvernement a continu\u00e9 de faire la sourde oreille. Il se dit peut-\u00eatre \u00e0 l'\u00e9coute d'une cat\u00e9gorie de victimes, mais il continue de donner des r\u00e9ponses \u00e9vasives \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des centaines de jeunes femmes des Premi\u00e8res Nations port\u00e9es disparues dans l'ensemble du pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280193\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cette semaine, le gouvernement a poursuivi sa d\u00e9marche judiciaire contre Cindy Blackstock. Il a espionn\u00e9 une femme qui d\u00e9non\u00e7ait des probl\u00e8mes en mati\u00e8re d'\u00e9ducation et de droits des enfants dont sont victimes les petits Autochtones, alors m\u00eame que plus d'enfants sont retir\u00e9s \u00e0 leur famille et plac\u00e9s maintenant qu'au plus fort de l'\u00e9poque des pensionnats indiens. On voit donc le pi\u00e8tre \u00e9tat de nos relations, qu'il faut am\u00e9liorer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280194\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je veux aujourd'hui parler du Trait\u00e9 Neuf, car il concerne la r\u00e9gion que je repr\u00e9sente, l'extr\u00e9mit\u00e9 du Nord de l'Ontario. Je sais qu'au cours de la crise sur le logement \u00e0 Attawapiskat, l'id\u00e9e qu'on a gagn\u00e9 alors que les Autochtones ont perdu ressortissait dans les m\u00e9dias, une id\u00e9e qui semble correspondre \u00e0 un point de vue g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9 au sein de la population \u00e0 propos du trait\u00e9, \u00e0 savoir qu'il s'agissait d'une esp\u00e8ce de capitulation, que les Premi\u00e8res Nations avaient baiss\u00e9 les bras.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cependant, tant qu'on n'a pas compris l'histoire du trait\u00e9, on ne peut pas vraiment comprendre pourquoi notre relation avec les membres des Premi\u00e8res Nations a si mal tourn\u00e9. On ne peut pas comprendre pourquoi des personnes comme le grand chef Stan Louttit et la chef Theresa Spence parlent autant du Trait\u00e9 Neuf. Ce sont leurs grands-parents qui l'ont sign\u00e9. Ce n'est pas de l'histoire ancienne. C'est le germe de ce qui a mal tourn\u00e9 au cours du XX<sup>e</sup> si\u00e8cle moderne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280196\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le contenu du site Web du minist\u00e8re des Affaires autochtones qui porte sur le Trait\u00e9 Neuf est stup\u00e9fiant. D\u00e8s la toute premi\u00e8re ligne sur l'histoire du trait\u00e9, on peut lire: \u00ab Nous vous prions de nous aider \u00bb, comme si les Premi\u00e8res Nations esp\u00e9raient que les fonctionnaires des Affaires autochtones viendraient tout r\u00e9gler.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280197\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce dont il \u00e9tait question \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 1800, c'\u00e9taient les incursions de colons blancs sur les terres des Premi\u00e8res Nations, qui les d\u00e9pouillaient de leurs ressources primaires, ainsi que la tentative de d\u00e9finir des r\u00e8gles sur le terrain. Les Premi\u00e8res Nations ne demandaient pas aux Affaires autochtones de venir confisquer leurs terres et de les installer dans des r\u00e9serves: elles d\u00e9non\u00e7aient une atteinte \u00e0 leurs droits fondamentaux, auxquels elles n'avaient jamais renonc\u00e9. Le Canadien Pacifique leur portait atteinte. Les colons blancs qui cherchaient \u00e0 inonder les communaut\u00e9s d'alcool leur portaient atteinte, sans compter qu'on privait les Autochtones de leurs droits de chasse fondamentaux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280198\" data-originallang=\"en\">Et n'oublions pas non plus la question de l'exploitation des ressources. En d\u00e9cembre 1901, le poste d'Osnaburgh House de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson a achemin\u00e9 une p\u00e9tition d\u00e9non\u00e7ant l'exploration mini\u00e8re effectu\u00e9e depuis deux ou trois ans aux environs du lac St-Joseph. Les signataires y demandaient \u00e0 rencontrer les repr\u00e9sentants de Sa Majest\u00e9 pour d\u00e9battre de la situation, car les Blancs b\u00e2tissaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 sur des terres qu'eux d\u00e9siraient conserver.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280199\" data-originallang=\"en\">En 1903, la Commission g\u00e9ologique du Canada a \u00e9t\u00e9 pri\u00e9e de s'en aller par la bande de la rivi\u00e8re Crane, qui a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 qu'elle n'avait pas le droit de venir faire de l'exploration sans le consentement expr\u00e8s des Premi\u00e8res Nations. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280200\" data-originallang=\"en\">En 1872, le chef Blackstone a emp\u00each\u00e9 l'exploitation de la mine d'or pr\u00e8s du lac Jackfish, disant aux prospecteurs qu'ils n'avaient pas le droit d'\u00eatre l\u00e0.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280201\" data-originallang=\"en\">Revenons au XXI<sup>e</sup> si\u00e8cle. Dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario, la bande Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug a expuls\u00e9 une jeune soci\u00e9t\u00e9 mini\u00e8re qui refusait de consulter la Premi\u00e8re Nation Wahgoshig de ma r\u00e9gion, all\u00e9guant qu'elle s'occupait d'exploitation mini\u00e8re et qu'elle n'avait pas pour t\u00e2che de chercher des pointes de fl\u00e8che. Le refus de consulter a conduit les Premi\u00e8res Nations d'aujourd'hui \u00e0 poser les m\u00eames gestes que leurs anc\u00eatres, il y a un si\u00e8cle. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280202\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand les commissaires au trait\u00e9 sont intervenus, cela n'a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 au sujet de l'abandon de territoires, c'\u00e9tait pour veiller \u00e0 ce que la terre soit utilis\u00e9e de fa\u00e7on juste et \u00e9quitable, ce qui n'\u00e9tait pas le cas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280203\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est int\u00e9ressant de constater que, dans son Rapport de recherche sur les trait\u00e9s, le minist\u00e8re des Affaires indiennes bl\u00e2me l'Ontario. Voici ce qu'il dit:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3280204\" data-originallang=\"en\"> C'\u00e9tait l'Ontario qui avait accord\u00e9 des permis aux arpenteurs-g\u00e9om\u00e8tres et aux prospecteurs miniers au sujet desquels les Indiens adressaient des plaintes aux repr\u00e9sentants du gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. Et c'\u00e9tait l'Ontario (les Cris et les Ojibways allaient le d\u00e9couvrir plus tard) qui avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9livr\u00e9 des permis de coupe de bois pour des terres que les Indiens d\u00e9siraient garder pour eux. Les incursions des Blancs \u00e9taient un fusil point\u00e9 sur la tempe des Indiens; l'Ontario avait le doigt sur la g\u00e2chette. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3280205\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voil\u00e0 l'histoire officielle du point de vue du minist\u00e8re des Affaires indiennes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280206\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous savons que, dans les Prairies, en Ontario et au Qu\u00e9bec, les autorit\u00e9s provinciales ont fait comme si les peuples des Premi\u00e8res Nations n'existaient pas. Puisqu'ils relevaient des autorit\u00e9s f\u00e9d\u00e9rales, ils n'existaient pas et les provinces pouvaient faire ce qu'elles voulaient. En ce qui concerne le Trait\u00e9 Neuf, cependant, le probl\u00e8me est qu'ils voulaient avoir quelques certitudes au sujet du territoire. L'Ontario a adopt\u00e9 la ligne dure. Elle a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 qu'elle ne permettrait pas \u00e0 une r\u00e9serve d'entreprendre des projets d'am\u00e9nagement hydro\u00e9lectrique, un point, c'est tout. Les Premi\u00e8res Nations allaient obtenir des terres qui n'avaient absolument aucune valeur. Ce n'\u00e9tait pas mentionn\u00e9 dans le Trait\u00e9 Neuf.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280207\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand des commissaires sont all\u00e9s dans la r\u00e9gion des Grands Lacs, en 1905 et 1906, ils ont fait des promesses verbales aux gens, car il n'y avait pas de culture \u00e9crite. Duncan Scott, le commissaire aux trait\u00e9s, savait qu'il n'y aurait pas de n\u00e9gociations, car le gouvernement ontarien avait dit que, si les choses n'\u00e9taient pas faites comme il l'entendait, il ne se soucierait aucunement des Premi\u00e8res Nations. C'est sa loi qui allait s'appliquer, point \u00e0 la ligne. Les Premi\u00e8res Nations avaient, pour ainsi dire, un fusil sur la tempe. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280208\" data-originallang=\"en\">Fait int\u00e9ressant: lorsque les commissaires sont arriv\u00e9s \u00e0 Fort Hope, o\u00f9 s\u00e9vit actuellement une \u00e9norme \u00e9pid\u00e9mie de suicides, le chef Moonias a dit aux gens que les Blancs ne leur donnaient pas d'argent pour rien. lls leur donnaient de l'argent, mais ils leur prenaient quelque chose d'important en retour. C'est ce qu'il leur disait, et les commissaires ont d\u00fb leur dorer la pilule. Ils leur disaient qu'ils allaient recevoir des services m\u00e9dicaux et qu'on construirait des \u00e9coles. La question de l'\u00e9ducation \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s importante pour les gens de la r\u00e9gion c\u00f4ti\u00e8re de la baie James. Les communaut\u00e9s cries savaient qu'elles avaient besoin de s'instruire pour faire face \u00e0 la crise qu'elles connaissaient. Elles savaient que le monde \u00e9tait en mutation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280209\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le journal de Daniel MacMartin vient seulement d'\u00eatre d\u00e9couvert. Cet homme accompagnait les commissaires pendant leurs d\u00e9placements au Nord de l'Ontario en 1905 et 1906. Il a \u00e9crit que les commissaires devaient rendre le march\u00e9 plus int\u00e9ressant qu'il ne l'\u00e9tait, mais qu'ils n'ont rien consign\u00e9 par \u00e9crit. Ce que les gens ont sign\u00e9 \u00e9tait compl\u00e8tement diff\u00e9rent de ce qu'on leur avait promis verbalement. Les dirigeants politiques ont bien s\u00fbr d\u00e9clar\u00e9, plus tard, que ces gens avaient c\u00e9d\u00e9 leurs terres. C'\u00e9tait \u00e9crit noir sur blanc, mais \u00e7a ne correspondait pas \u00e0 la promesse verbale qu'on leur avait faite.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280210\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voil\u00e0 ce qu'a \u00e9t\u00e9 le bilan du soi-disant honneur de la Couronne pendant les 100 ann\u00e9es qui ont suivi. J'en ai moi-m\u00eame \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moin. J'ai pu le constater \u00e0 Lac Barriere, o\u00f9, aussit\u00f4t qu'il a sign\u00e9 une entente avec la collectivit\u00e9, le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral s'est retir\u00e9. J'ai pu le constater dans la Premi\u00e8re Nation Kashechewan, o\u00f9 nous nous sommes assis avec le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral de l'\u00e9poque, pour revoir le document cens\u00e9 refl\u00e9ter les promesses qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 faites verbalement. Je me souviens avoir dit au chef qu'on ne retrouvait aucune des promesses dans le document; on nous a dit de faire confiance \u00e0 l'honneur de la Couronne. Nous savons ce qui en est advenu. Tant pis pour l'accord avec Kashechewan; il a fallu attendre que le gouvernement conservateur actuel abolisse cet accord. Voil\u00e0 ce qu'\u00e9tait le soi-disant honneur de la Couronne. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280211\" data-originallang=\"en\">Daniel MacMartin affirme que les gens ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tromp\u00e9s. Les commissaires ont d\u00fb duper les gens pour les amener \u00e0 signer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280212\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est fascinant, et franchement tr\u00e8s troublant, de penser que c'est Duncan Scott qui a men\u00e9 les n\u00e9gociations pour le Trait\u00e9 Neuf. Les gens qui se sont adress\u00e9s \u00e0 lui ont dit comprendre que leur mode de vie \u00e9tait menac\u00e9. Ils se sont dits pr\u00eats \u00e0 conclure un accord s'il leur promettait une \u00e9ducation pour leurs enfants. Duncan Scott avait effectivement un plan pour leur \u00e9ducation: les pensionnats indiens. Duncan Scott a d\u00e9cr\u00e9t\u00e9 les pensionnats obligatoires, pour \u00ab se d\u00e9barrasser des probl\u00e8mes des Indiens [...] de continuer jusqu'\u00e0 ce qu'il n'y ait pas un seul Indien au Canada qui n'ait \u00e9t\u00e9 absorb\u00e9 \u00bb. Il s'agissait d'une politique g\u00e9nocide. Peu importe la fa\u00e7on dont on la pr\u00e9sente, elle visait la destruction du peuple des Premi\u00e8res Nations. Ils se sont rendus dans ces collectivit\u00e9s, se sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s sous un faux jour et ont puni celles-ci avec les pensionnats indiens, ce qui les a presque d\u00e9truites.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3280213\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cent ans plus tard, l'histoire nous interpelle. Elle frappe \u00e0 la porte de la Chambre des communes pour nous dire qu'il est temps de r\u00e9tablir les ponts, de montrer que l'honneur de la Couronne existe bel et bien, de prot\u00e9ger les droits et la dignit\u00e9 qui reviennent aux peuples des Premi\u00e8res Nations, en tant que premiers habitants du pays dont les droits n'ont jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 abolis.</p>"
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        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
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        "en": "Business of Supply",
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        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit",
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