Nation to Nation

Hill Times columnist Rose LeMay and APTN reporter Karyn Pugliese are on tonight's episode of Nation to Nation to discuss this week's First Nations-First Ministers meeting and what was accomplished at the gathering.

Veteran Native American journalist Mark Trahant also joins Host Fraser Needham to discuss the upcoming midterm elections in the United States.

That's on Nation to Nation.

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A Winnipeg NDP MP says the party has no intention of limiting free speech and wants to see residential school denialism made a prosecutable hate crime in only the most extreme circumstances.

That's on Nation to Nation.

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A Manitoba senator says she hopes her proposed private members' bill will help make First Nations communities safer.

If enacted the bill would require the RCMP to enforce First Nations bylaws, something communities have long complained the Mounties don't do.

That's on Nation to Nation.

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On the season premiere of Nation to Nation, Edmonton Conservative MP Billy Morin's stance on the upcoming Alberta referendum and delegates from the Northwest Territories is in Ottawa to lobby for increased defence and infrastructure.

Also, Wet'suwet'en Nation Hereditary Chief Na'Moks and speaking with him on urging the government to not go ahead with fossil fuel industry investments.

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On the season finale of Nation to Nation, Karyn Pugliese is joined by NDP leader Avi Lewis. They discuss rebuilding his party and trust with Indigenous people, not having a seat in Parliament and ongoing nuclear waste talks.

The NDP are rebuilding from a weak place, but Lewis and his party hopes touring the country to hear first hand what needs to be done is a step in the right direction.

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On this week's Nation to Nation, host Karyn Pugliese discusses the federal government saying we may need to double electricity output as a nation by 2050. The cost of Canada's electricity demand is increasing and to handle the demand, projects may cross First Nation territories.

Karyn also speaks to Indigenous leaders in the electricity and renewable energy sector to discuss who benefits from these projects and who will control them.

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Mary Simon's time as governor general has come to an end, closing a historic chapter for Rideau Hall, for Indigenous Peoples and Canada.

This week, the Nation to Nation journalists' panel reflected on her time in office and her legacy.

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Auditor General of Canada Karen Hogan joins host Karyn Pugliese on this week's episode of Nation to Nation to discuss what really happened when the federal government moved numerous First Nations to a funding system that provided more autonomy.

Also on the show, Conservative MP Billy Morin discusses files he's been tracking at Indigenous Services Canada; Bill S-2, that seeks the end of the second-generation cut-off to the Indian Act and Jordan's Principle.

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Karyn Pugliese is joined by chair of the First Nations Financial Management Board Harold Calla on Nation to Nation to discuss what First Nation leaders should demand at their First Ministers meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in the fall.

To Calla, economic reconciliation means First Nations should be treated as governments with power to shape economic decisions that affect their lands ahead of those decisions already being made.

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With the new Liberal majority, they can now push through legislation. However, AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse hopes that actually means finally moving on long overdue laws and protections for First Nations.

From clean water legislation, the second-generation cut-off in the Indian Act and the federal-provincial-territorial First Ministers meeting, there is a lot that must be done with this new majority.

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