Question Period: Fishing Vessel SafetyNovember 30, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: Question PeriodHon. Brian Francis: Senator Gold, last week, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, or TSB, released a report following an investigation…
Ministerial Question Period: Conservation of National ParksNovember 22, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: Question PeriodHon. Brian Francis: Minister Guilbeault, one of the priorities in your most recent mandate letter published in December 2021 was to establish…
Indigenous Veterans DayNovember 8, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: StatementsHon. Brian Francis: Honourable senators, I rise today to mark Indigenous Veterans Day, which is observed each year on November 8, to…
International Inuit DayNovember 2, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: StatementsHon. Brian Francis: Honourable senators, November 7 is International Inuit Day. In Canada, there are approximately 70,000 Inuit. Most live in 51…
Fifteenth Report of Indigenous Peoples CommitteeOctober 31, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: SpeechesHon. Brian Francis: Honourable senators, before beginning, I would like to acknowledge that I am speaking from the traditional unceded…
The Honourable Jane Cordy—Congratulations on Honorary DoctorateOctober 19, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: StatementsHon. Brian Francis: Honourable senators, I am pleased to rise today to celebrate the achievement of a colleague and a friend.…
Question Period: Île-à-la Crosse Residential SchoolOctober 3, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: Question PeriodHon. Brian Francis: My question is for the Government Representative in the Senate. The Île-à-la-Crosse residential school in Saskatchewan operated from…
Question Period: Indian Residential Schools Settlement AgreementSeptember 28, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: Question PeriodHon. Brian Francis: My question is for the Government Representative in the Senate. The survivors of St. Anne’s Residential School have spent…
National Day for Truth and ReconciliationSeptember 28, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: StatementsHon. Brian Francis: Honourable senators, I rise today in advance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which is the…
Question Period: Indian ActSeptember 21, 2023Author: The Hon. Brian FrancisCategory: Question PeriodHon. Brian Francis: My question is for the Government Representative in the Senate. Last July, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on…