May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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THE WITNESS: Well --
THE COMMISSIONER: -- in your definition?
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THE WITNESS:
In, in my definition it includes,
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you know, the ability to make governance-related decisions,
it would include issues like being able to have input and
direction over sort of health, education, child welfare
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services in, in those local communities.
It would include
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the ability to negotiate with governments around the kind
of development that ought to exist. So those would be some
of the factors that I would characterize as being selfdetermination
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THE COMMISSIONER: Thank you.
THE WITNESS: -- and focus.
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BY MR. OLSON:
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Would that be both on and off reserve?
Yes, although it's more complicated off reserve.
Right.
And, you know, because there's not community
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entities in the sense of being able to sort of do that in
a, in a, in a, you know, mandated community way as there
would be on reserves. So it is more complicated.
Q Okay. I understand. You talked about health,
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education and child welfare.
interrelated?
Are all of those areas
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