Human Resources committee  They're having a huge impact. I'm not saying it's just the fish farms. Most certainly, global warming is an issue; it plays its role. How much pollution plays a role, I'm not too clear. But certainly there is a direct and very distinct link between fish farms and the migrating wild stocks.

Human Resources committee  Social inclusion almost sounds like a first nations concept. In my community, I was raised by my grandmother and grandfather and they basically told me that as a leader you are only as strong as the weakest person in your community. I think that kind of captures what social inclusion is.

Human Resources committee  I'm a member of the Nicola Tribal Association. My community is right in the Fraser Canyon, just nine kilometres south of where the Thompson and Fraser Rivers meet in Lytton. We're right on the Trans-Canada Highway, yet it's almost as though we live in isolation. We have no high-speed Internet in our community, and yet we have fibre all around us.

Human Resources committee  In reality, our member communities through the Nicola Tribal Association have gone to great lengths to protect the identified stocks when they come through DFO management systems. If they say leave the early Stuart salmon alone... I have not eaten an early Stuart salmon in over ten years.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. [Witness speaks in his native language] It's an honour to be here in the coastal territory once again, down here in friends' territory. This was very short notice for me, so I don't have very many speaking notes. Of course, for the issues I'm going to speak on, there aren't a lot of statistics.