Environment committee  You made a point about the agreement. We've never been approached—not by Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Canada.

Environment committee  For the record, I'm Diane McDonald, Prince Albert Grand Council, representing the Athabasca region.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Regarding the original land management act, our people have actually never been involved in any consultation, period.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Exactly. Our people are being more educated nowadays, and we are so unaware of many policies that have been proposed by provincial and federal governments, and we're just learning as we're going along in our lands department.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. I mean, we've never been handed the land management act, but we've learned through the Internet that the land management act is being reviewed. I come from Fond Du Lac Denesuline First Nation, and we were invited to attend the consultation by the aboriginal affairs department

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I could speak to that. We're not talking about doing things over and over again. Even though we've developed a land use plan as a region, two other first nations communities are involved along with the municipal communities—and this was originally a partnership with the Provinc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can speak to that, because I grew up on that lake. Certainly we're seeing changes to our lake, to Lake Athabasca, from the oil sands development. Our people who fish, who live off the land.... It's not only in that area. We're not exactly sure where it's coming from, but we k

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can speak to it because I've worked on it for 10 years and I'm very familiar with it and the communities, including one of my colleagues there. As I said earlier in my presentation, this was originally a partnership with the Province of Saskatchewan, its Ministry of Environmen

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've seen changes over the years, especially on the lake where the border is. You can look at the map in Chief Tsannie's presentation. The water used to be nice and clear on the Saskatchewan side, but now the discolouration is actually coming much closer, towards Camsell Portage

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, a lot of these lands are off reserve but they are within our traditional territory.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We live off these lands. Certainly, there are 43 abandoned sites within the region, and maybe a couple that.... I think Fond du Lac may have one on the reserve.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Pardon me?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, Fond du Lac does and Hatchet Lake does, and I think Black Lake does. They all do.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I won't speak on behalf of the Prince Albert Grand Council because I don't really represent PA Grand Council—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —but with having my office out of the Prince Albert Grand Council, my role, my responsibility, is to actually work with the Athabasca communities, the three first nations and the seven communities. I can speak just specifically to the department that the communities have create