May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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That's correct.
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Q Okay. You also made the argument, I think you
made the argument, that's my, my take on it, that that's an
opportunity that was missed with devolution, and we've
heard the criticism before in this inquiry that what
happened with devolution, it was still the same services,
still the same model that, you know, the same old
protection model, just being provided by, you know, First
Nations instead of not, you know. Is that, is that sort of
what you were arguing in the paper?
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Well, I wouldn't characterize it quite that
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boldly. I think --
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Right.
-- the intent was, in the devolution process, and
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there was a very collaborative process followed by
government in work with aboriginal organizations to, to
develop that model of devolution, and that was sort of well
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done.
The assumption was that transferring jurisdictional
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control would pave the way both for providing more
culturally appropriate services but also evolving different
types of service that would be more appropriate to their
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particular communities.
The problem was that, you know,
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not -- that the development of those kinds of models or the
conceptualization of those models and the funding that
would ensure the development of those kinds of services
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