Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. On the question of who decides, it's up to the first nation community as a collective to decide whether they want to opt into it. I'm not saying one part of the community should make a decision against the other. The community has to find a way to decide on its own rules w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Chief Jules will say that the proposed First Nations Property Ownership Act is in fact about self-government. By gaining title and jurisdiction, what you're in essence doing is giving the first nation the jurisdiction, the self-government, over its land to control it in a much mo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the questions. On the first one, concerning selling the land versus collective rights, I will echo what Chief Whiteduck says, which is that the proposed First Nations Property Ownership Act is not for all first nations. That's clear. We're not saying this is a pana

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak on the issue of first nations land management and sustainable economic development. In general, my research examines how existing land tenure regimes on Canadian Indian reserves limit or facilitate economic development. A common misconcepti