Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd like to add to my colleague's comments. The summit is later this week. I've come here and will race back home to attend the summit meeting. There's a resolution on the floor to discuss the need for an aboriginal body to deal with overlap and shared territory disputes, because it is running rampant.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll try to be quick, and thank you for that. I recognize the time limitations, but put simply—and we encounter this in British Columbia as well—they feel what they've done is to improve access. They're missing the point about infringement and the taking of land, as my colleague Jean referred to.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the puzzling things happened back in 2005. We provided boxes and boxes of evidence to Mr. Lofthouse and Mr. Barkwell at those sessions. They had all of the evidence. They promised and promised to respond. It wasn't until after B.C. actually passed their legislation that we received a formal letter of response on all of the issues we put in.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to present before the committee this morning. As just a quick backgrounder, I've been involved in politics in the Stó:lo area for 32 years now, so I've seen a lot of things, I've seen a lot of changes, and I have to say that the current time and the initiative before you in the form of the Yale treaty is probably the most critical and terrifying one to the Stó:lo right now.