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In Committee from the House of Commons
Liberal MP Bill Casey Discusses Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Items
Canadian Heritage - September 18, 2018 - Part 2: Liberal MP Bill Casey presents his private member's bill that would establish a national strategy to help Indigenous communities and organizations repatriate cultural items. The longtime MP was inspired to table Bill C-391 after visiting the Millbrook Cultural and Heritage Centre near Truro, Nova Scotia and admiring a Mi'kmaq robe on display. He learned the robe was only a copy and that the original was located in an Australian museum. Heather Stevens, the operations supervisor of the Millbrook centre, also testifies. She describes the struggle of trying to have the priceless piece of Mi'kmaq cultural history returned to Canada.