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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee If they have representation, there's a cost to the first nation, but there's funding available to cover those costs.
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The rules of the tribunal stipulate that they have to be represented by legal counsel, so they have to seek legal counsel.
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee If both parties feel there is a need for it, yes.
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee If we feel that we need to continue the negotiations, of course; if we're not done and we don't have an idea of where we're going towards the settlement, yes. Yes, the act says three years. What the department is trying to do is govern itself in accordance with what the act say
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee There is no policy to end the negotiations in three years. It's a framework that we've adapted to get to the settlements within three years.
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The mediation services unit will administer the rosters of the independent mediators. If at the table both parties agree there's an issue that needs to be kind of massaged better to get to a settlement that we just can't see, or that we're not able to crack, I guess, both parties
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee No. What we're saying is that we are managing each and every negotiation process to reach a settlement within the three-year process--
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The three-year operational framework has been in operation since the announcement of the action plan. The evaluation does cover that three-year period. They interviewed first nations and other organizations, as well as employees, to develop their recommendations.
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We have been looking at that, and as a continuation of a discussion with our colleagues in lands and economic development, we will continue to look at that, because some of the first nations, as Ms. Green has said, have invested. They have used the settlement money to invest in t
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee All that information is available on our website. There's a public searchable database.
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee If it's a claim that has been filed with the minister, it will have that date. All the dates are identified as part of the report. So it will say to you that this claim was filed with the minister on such a date. It will say that this claim was accepted for negotiation on such a
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We have no plans to terminate any negotiations. It is important that that be said. We are trying to manage the negotiation process to get ourselves to a settlement within three years. That is our approach. That's how we're organizing ourselves to do it, but we are not terminating
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
Anik Dupont