Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I guess I could try to answer.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Hopefully I'll be a bit more successful with the answer.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the online meeting-place community, there is a forum where lands governance directors can share with each other the consultants they use and the advisers they use for specific areas.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They would also be able to share who not to use.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd like to add something to that. One of the units on environmental governance talks about reserve operations. Reserve operations are things such as road and bridge maintenance, and groundwater and drinking water assessments. As a lands governance director, you're not directly

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, their program has a two-pronged approach. My feeling in taking the program at the University of Saskatchewan.... It's a wonderful university, but I come from Prince George, and there's a wonderful university there where I took the same courses. I wasn't able to use prior

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, one could just be hired as a lands manager and not have any background in that area. The learning curve is very steep. That was my situation. I was hired, and I had to learn about this field, this legislation, and the land code. It can be quite a steep learning curve.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks, Ruth. We currently have five introductory courselets on a number of different topics such as the environment, planning concepts, and dispute resolution. Right now they are available on the virtual resource centre for lands governance directors to download, print, and pre

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon. I'm Patti. I'm a member of the Squamish Nation and I was the director of lands and natural resources for five years with the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation in Prince George, B.C. I have a bachelor's degree in geography, and I've been working in the field of capacit