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{
"time": "2017-11-29 16:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5156764\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, with respect and acknowledgement to my colleague and his leadership on this issue, I want to take us back to a year ago.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156765\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was very specific in its criticism of the government. This is a document dated November 18, 2016, from UN CEDAW. It notes that:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5156766\" data-originallang=\"en\"> the Committee remains concerned about continued discrimination against indigenous women, in particular regarding the transmission of Indian status, preventing them and their descendants from enjoying all the benefits related to such status. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156767\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The committee recommends that [Canada] remove all remaining discriminatory provisions of the Indian Act that affect indigenous women and their descendants, and ensure that indigenous women enjoy the same rights as men to transmit their status to their children and grandchildren. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5156768\" data-originallang=\"en\">On June 21, national indigenous day, my colleague moved amendments, and we watched the Liberal government members voting those provisions down, without even seeming to understand that they were in fact voting against full gender equality for indigenous women.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156769\" data-originallang=\"en\">Now here we are again today with the litigants, the three women, Sharon McIvor, Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell, and Lynn Gehl. Some of these women have been fighting this for four decades. They do not support this amendment and this legislation that the government has put before us today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156770\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In what way can this incremental gender equality be accepted for indigenous women, when it is so out of step with the commitments of the government?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5156764\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, par respect pour mon coll\u00e8gue et en reconnaissance du r\u00f4le moteur qu'il joue dans ce dossier, j'aimerais revenir un an en arri\u00e8re.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156765\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le Comit\u00e9 des Nations unies pour l'\u00e9limination de la discrimination \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des femmes a \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9cis dans ses reproches au gouvernement. Dans un document dat\u00e9 du 18 novembre 2016, il fait remarquer ceci:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5156766\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le Comit\u00e9 demeure [...] pr\u00e9occup\u00e9 par la poursuite de la discrimination \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des femmes autochtones, en particulier s'agissant de la transmission du statut d'Indien, ce qui les emp\u00eache, ainsi que leurs descendants, de jouir de tous les avantages li\u00e9s \u00e0 ce statut. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156767\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le Comit\u00e9 recommande [au Canada] de supprimer de la [L]oi sur les Indiens toutes les dispositions discriminatoires qui touchent les femmes autochtones et leurs descendants et de veiller \u00e0 ce que les femmes autochtones jouissent des m\u00eames droits que les hommes \u00e0 transmettre leur statut \u00e0 leurs enfants et petits-enfants. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5156768\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le 21 juin, Journ\u00e9e nationale des Autochtones, mon coll\u00e8gue a propos\u00e9 des amendements, que nous avons vu les minist\u00e9riels rejeter sans m\u00eame sembler comprendre que, ce faisant, ils votaient en fait contre la pleine \u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les sexes pour les femmes autochtones.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156769\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous voici de nouveau aujourd'hui avec les trois plaignantes, Sharon McIvor, Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell et Lynn Gehl. Certaines d'entre elles m\u00e8nent cette lutte depuis quatre d\u00e9cennies. Elles n'appuient pas l'amendement et le projet de loi que le gouvernement nous pr\u00e9sente aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5156770\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comment peut-on accepter que l'\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les sexes soit si graduelle pour les femmes autochtones alors que cela ne refl\u00e8te pas du tout les engagements du gouvernement?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/11/29/sheila-malcolmson-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sheila-malcolmson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4256/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9815263",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Indian Act",
"fr": "La Loi sur les Indiens"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/11/29/",
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}