Youth Indigenize the Senate of Canada before the committee. As the inaugural event was focused on celebrating National Aboriginal Day in Canada, the Indigenous youth leaders shared their success stories with the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. Andrea Andersen "Inuk from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut" Jacquelyn Cardinal "Nehiyaw from the Sucker Creek Cree First Nation on Treaty 8 Territory, Alberta" Perry Kootenhayoo "Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, now lives in Edmonton" Modeste McKenzie "Dene Métis from La Ronge, Saskatchewan" Tiffany Monkman "Métis from Winnipeg, Manitoba" Jennifer O'Bomsawin "Wendat and Abenaki from Odanak, Quebec" Stephen Puskas "Inuk from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories" Holly Jane Sock "Mi'kmaq from Elsipogtog First Nation"
Provinces and territories of Canada territories are not sovereign, but instead their authorities and responsibilities come directly from the federal level, and as a result have a commissioner instead of a lieutenant governor. Notes: There are three territories in Canada. Unlike the provinces, the territories of Canada have no inherent sovereignty and have only those powers delegated to them by the federal government. They include all of mainland Canada north of latitude 60° north and west of Hudson Bay, as well as most islands north of the Canadian mainland (from those in James Bay to the Canadian Arctic islands). The following table lists the territories