I will be very brief, Mr. Chairman. I think every culture all over the world has the idea that there's a natural, traditional way of helping people to get better and it's been passed on for hundreds and hundreds of years. You learn that this kind of plant will cure a headache or a certain plant will heal a cut quickly. The old doctors were called herbalists. In other words, they were experts on all kinds of plants. It is very often inherited from one generation to another, that knowledge is passed down. It exists all over the world and there is a movement as well to have traditional, natural ways of helping people to become better recognized somehow. That is what is meant in this motion. Why don't we recognize there is expert knowledge always passed from one generation to another about the different ways in which you can help people who are sick. If you just say let's recognize it, then what does that mean? It has to mean something. It seems to me that if you are talking about healing, you are talking about someone who has a certain knowledge about how to do something. If you know who those people are, the kind of gifts they have and the service they offer, then I have no problem in finding some way of recognizing them. But it is not good enough just to say, I recognize it. We all know they exist. It is already a fact. But how is that manifested? Is this a service that people take advantage of? So I find it difficult to support a motion that is so general that it only confirms what we already know. There is nothing new added to it. Thank you.
Brian Lewis on Committee Motion 10-12(4): To Adopt Recommendation 6, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on November 24th, 1993. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 10-12(4): To Adopt Recommendation 6, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
November 23rd, 1993
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Brian Lewis Yellowknife Centre
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