QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Indigenous Services—Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
Gender-based Discrimination
November 24, 2022
Welcome, minister.
Will the proposed new amendment to the Indian Act follow the Indian Act Sex Discrimination Working Group’s findings that the best way to end the Indian Act’s extinction regime is to institute a one Indigenous parent rule for both male and female parents, thus getting rid of the generational cut-offs?
Thank you.
I believe the honourable senator knows I can’t talk about the legislation that will be tabled at some point in order to address the ongoing systemic discrimination.
I believe that the legislation that we will table will address some of the concerns, and likely not all of the concerns, because there is still more to do. There are still people who have some strong perspectives about what needs to happen.
I will say this: The government is committed to ending all sex‑based discrimination. We will be looking forward to the comments from honourable senators in this place during the inevitable study of the legislation.
