Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have questions. What I am hearing here seems to have a familiar ring in terms of what I experienced with the residential school claims and the students in the Northwest Territories. We agreed at some point as parties to the claims. It seems that, in principle, we agree with it, but when it gets down to the administration part, it seems like us in terms of our claims in Ottawa, some bureaucratic processes that pumps it up and shoots it back. It has a severe impact on people who are going through this process. Sometimes there is verification on the claim. There are witnesses. These people are provided with some advice and some support to go through it, because it is traumatic being off the job, away from work or whatever. It is a traumatic period of my life in terms of our turmoil in the community and your family, just like the residents who claim. Is this a process that we are once the governance committee or whoever rules the tribunal says, yes, this is what we ruled on? Do what they have done. It is similar to what we went through in the residential school claims in the Northwest Territories. We found out through that process. It is aggravation and pain that we had to go through because some of the senior bureaucrats that put doors in the way that said uh-oh and we kept getting phone calls. I guess as a legislator, that is why I am coming to voice my concern here. Is this what is happening here? If it is, what can we do to straighten that out?
Norman Yakeleya on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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