Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To add to that, we are a fairly young organization. Our first land codes took effect, three of them, on January 1, 2000, and we have received very limited funds in order to be able to develop our capacity-building modules for the first nations. All of the work is on the ground

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, the environmental management agreement was a huge stumbling block. We hope this will allow us to develop more support for our first nation, and we're currently working on that. I have another conference call next week with our consultant on developing all of these base laws.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and on your question on the enforcement, we'll be working on that as well. Actually, Keith and I just talked about that. It takes the engagement of the local enforcement agencies, the provinces and the government, and the first nation to work collectively on putting that tog

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. That was Chief Robert Louie who spoke, and he met with the minister the night before his presentation to the committee. At that time it wasn't signed, but since then it has been signed, so that's an update on that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Could I respond to that?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In regard to economic development, for the land code first nations, in general, it's hard to say what the economic developments will be. It's hard to anticipate what the members will want by way of getting into business. It's hard to anticipate what developers or potential third-

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Do you mean specific to Mississauga?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think one of the first things was that they really didn't have any lands to manage, so in order to properly sell the MRP to the membership, it really needs them to have a vested interest in what the outcome is. Aside from that, it simply takes the time it takes to draft it and

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I want to add to that. I have been working with Mississauga for I don't know how many years now. What's interesting with Mississauga is that when they were going through the land description report process, they discovered they had only 0.16 acres. So when they say they have had

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The way the Lands Advisory Board works on these amendments...and these amendments are always improvements to the framework agreement—the framework agreement is the underlying document. The act is amended after the framework agreement is amended. The first nations that are in oper