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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I am. I've done some work with the two of them. Actually, in terms of the project sequencing, it was Kelsey, then Grand Rapids, then Kettle. Kettle was not possible until long-distance high-voltage transmission was technically feasible. One of the reasons Grand Rapids was begun

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, interestingly, Canada was not a party to the original agreement, nor is it a party to the current one. Members may be aware, and the parliamentary secretary certainly is, that there has been outstanding litigation, which has been moving along slowly, between the Grand Rapid

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, the report you referred to, which includes that case study, is “The Fiduciary Obligation and the Environmental Management of First Nations' Lands”. As a bit of background, the department circulated this report to every first nation in Canada as part of the lands-in-trust re

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The most obvious limitation for first nation environmental management is that section 81 of the Indian Act doesn't provide a head of authority for a first nation to manage the environment and its lands in that common sense. One of the former environment managers of Manitoba regi

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The first large project in the north was Kelsey, which was constructed to provide power to the Inco operations at Thompson. That was a co-project built originally between Inco and Hydro, and became a Hydro project. That was followed then by Kettle, the first large generating st

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are circumstances that are very similar in our communities, partly because of isolation, lack of support for workers when they're in camps, and so on. The agreements are attempting to provide support for workers and to adapt their work schedules so their lives and their com

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The ministerial order is a step that removes a considerable period of time consideration. I repeat again that most of the acres that have moved are ready to move. They're remote, there are no mining claims, and there are no hydro easements. You basically send a survey crew out, s

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think reasoned minds getting together to methodically go through the parcels that are in limbo would be of some value right now. That might need some senior policy assistance to say, “This is the decision we're going to take, this is the decision we're going to live with, and l

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Interestingly, in many cases with the sites that are the most troublesome the issues arose at a very early stage after selection in the various correspondence back and forth, including from the province. Some of them, for example the departmental concerns regarding the pre-transf

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The legacy issues related to large-scale developments and first nations land are deep and profound. There are elders in some of our communities who have not gone back to their traditional territories where their former homes were because it would literally break their hearts. I

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can say the ministerial order is a good thing. It moves the land more quickly. The order in council lands, you're all familiar with the mechanism. It takes a long time. You have to get the committee of deputies together. It's a long process to get an order in council of the fed

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I was saying that, without intending to be disrespectful, we called the ATR the prevention of reserves policy because it just took so long.

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The prevention of reserves policy. For example, there was an issue with the stale-dating of environmental assessments. Departmental officials would work on doing an environmental site assessment, particularly if a site had any human use prior to that, the storage of fuel or parti

May 29th, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Anderson