Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2018-09-19 19:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5525695\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the previous minister of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans made commitments to the lead negotiators of the five Nuu-chah-nulth nations that operate the T'aaq-wiihak fishery. At a face-to-face meeting in Campbell River on March 13, 2018, he made commitments to accelerate the reconciliation of the five nations of the Nuu-chah-nulth that have been in a longstanding battle for their fishing rights. It has been dragging on and on through litigation and prolonged negotiation since 2009. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525696\" data-originallang=\"en\">The government initiated a rights recognition and reconciliation process with the five nations in June 2017, which has yet to produce any results. The five nations negotiated a term sheet with senior government representatives from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which was concluded in September 2017. It was promised that the term sheet would become the substance of a memorandum to cabinet that has yet to make it to the cabinet committee, despite repeated commitments by the government that cabinet would deal with this memorandum to cabinet in the fall of 2017, and then the spring of 2018. Now it is the fall of 2018. Specifically, the fisheries minister was to champion with the <a data-HoCid=\"233806\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs</a> the memorandum to cabinet that must be presented to it this fall. The memorandum to cabinet will lead to the implementation of the nations' rights-based fisheries, and tangibly demonstrate that the government is serious about reconciliation with first nations in Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525697\" data-originallang=\"en\">The five nations wrote to the new <a data-HoCid=\"241630\" href=\"/politicians/jonathan-wilkinson/\" title=\"Jonathan Wilkinson\">minister</a> of the DFO on August 29, requesting a meeting as soon as possible, and there has still be no response. They just want to confirm the commitments made by the previous minister.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525698\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The nations met concurrently with the previous minister, the <a data-HoCid=\"233806\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations</a> and the <a data-HoCid=\"214903\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">Minister of Justice</a> on June 27, 2016, in Ottawa. The five nations have met twice with the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> on this issue, and yet, despite these high-level meetings and the promises of government action, there has been no substantive process of recognition of the nations' fishing rights by the government, even though two B.C. Supreme Court decisions and several appeals have all instructed the government to work with the five nations to establish a new fisheries regime that recognizes and respects their priority rights. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525699\" data-originallang=\"en\">When will the government start taking substantive action, demonstrating a real understanding and respect for first nations' rights, and specifically the commercial fishing rights of these five Nuu-chah-nulth nations, rather than just more talk and rhetoric by it about respecting first nations' rights and the importance of the relationship with indigenous people? With these five nations, the government can back up its empty promises so far with real action by approving the reconciliation agreement that these five Nuu-chah-nulth nations crafted with senior government staff from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and DFO. That is all they are asking for. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5525695\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent ministre des P\u00eaches et des Oc\u00e9ans avait promis une s\u00e9rie de choses aux n\u00e9gociateurs des cinq nations nuu-chah-nulth qui g\u00e8rent l'organisme de p\u00eache T'aaq-wiihak. Le 13 mars 2018, \u00e0 Campbell River, o\u00f9 il s'\u00e9tait rendu, il s'\u00e9tait en outre engag\u00e9 \u00e0 acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer la r\u00e9conciliation avec ces cinq m\u00eames nations, qui se battent depuis des lunes pour faire reconna\u00eetre leurs droits de p\u00eache. Or, les n\u00e9gociations et les proc\u00e9dures judiciaires tra\u00eenent en longueur depuis 2009. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525696\" data-originallang=\"en\">En juin 2017, le gouvernement a lanc\u00e9 un processus de r\u00e9conciliation avec les Nuu-chah-nulth et de reconnaissance de leurs droits, mais on en attend encore les r\u00e9sultats. Les cinq nations concern\u00e9es ont n\u00e9goci\u00e9 une s\u00e9rie de modalit\u00e9s avec les hauts dirigeants de Relations Couronne-Autochtones et Affaires du Nord Canada et du minist\u00e8re des P\u00eaches et des Oc\u00e9ans, et elles ont conclu une entente en septembre 2017. On leur avait promis que ces modalit\u00e9s serviraient de point de d\u00e9part \u00e0 un m\u00e9moire au Cabinet, mais ce dernier n'a m\u00eame pas encore \u00e9t\u00e9 soumis au comit\u00e9 du Cabinet. Le gouvernement leur avait pourtant promis que le Cabinet s'en saisirait d\u00e8s l'automne 2017, puis au printemps 2018. Nous sommes maintenant \u00e0 l'automne 2018. En fait, c'est le ministre des P\u00eaches qui devait en \u00eatre responsable, avec la <a data-HoCid=\"233806\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">ministre des Relations Couronne-Autochtones et du Nord</a>. C'est ce m\u00e9moire au Cabinet qui permettra \u00e0 ces cinq nations d'exercer leurs droits de p\u00eache. Il s'agirait aussi d'une preuve concr\u00e8te que le gouvernement prend au s\u00e9rieux la r\u00e9conciliation avec les Premi\u00e8res Nations du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525697\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les cinq nations nuu-chah-nulth ont \u00e9crit au nouveau <a data-HoCid=\"241630\" href=\"/politicians/jonathan-wilkinson/\" title=\"Jonathan Wilkinson\">ministre des P\u00eaches et des Oc\u00e9ans</a> le 29 ao\u00fbt dernier pour solliciter une rencontre le plus t\u00f4t possible, mais elles n'ont pas encore eu de r\u00e9ponse. Elles demandent seulement qu'on leur confirme que les engagements du ministre pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent tiennent toujours.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525698\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les nations ont rencontr\u00e9 en m\u00eame temps l'ancien ministre, la <a data-HoCid=\"233806\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">ministre des Relations Couronne-Autochtones</a> et la <a data-HoCid=\"214903\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">ministre de la Justice</a> le 27 juin 2016, \u00e0 Ottawa. Les cinq nations ont rencontr\u00e9 le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> \u00e0 deux reprises sur cette question. Or, malgr\u00e9 ces rencontres de haut niveau et les promesses d'action de la part du gouvernement, ce dernier n'a rien fait de concret pour reconna\u00eetre les droits de p\u00eache de ces nations, et ce, m\u00eame si, selon deux d\u00e9cisions de la Cour supr\u00eame de la Colombie-Britannique et plusieurs appels, le gouvernement doit travailler en collaboration avec les cinq nations afin d'\u00e9tablir un nouveau r\u00e9gime des p\u00eaches qui reconna\u00eet et respecte leurs droits prioritaires. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525699\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand le gouvernement va-t-il commencer \u00e0 prendre des mesures concr\u00e8tes et ainsi montrer qu'il comprend et respecte vraiment les droits des Premi\u00e8res Nations \u2014 et plus particuli\u00e8rement les droits de ces cinq nations nuu-chah-nulth en mati\u00e8re de p\u00eache commerciale \u2014 plut\u00f4t que de s'en tenir \u00e0 de belles paroles sur le respect des droits des Premi\u00e8res Nations et l'importance de la relation avec les peuples autochtones? Le gouvernement a ici une occasion de concr\u00e9tiser des promesses non tenues jusqu'ici en approuvant l'entente de r\u00e9conciliation \u00e9labor\u00e9e conjointement par ces cinq nations nuu-chah-nulth et les \u00e9chelons sup\u00e9rieurs de Relations Couronne-Autochtones et Affaires du Nord Canada et de P\u00eaches et Oc\u00e9ans Canada. C'est tout ce qu'elles demandent. </p>"
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    "h1": {
        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
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    "h2": {
        "en": "Indigenous Affairs",
        "fr": ""
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