In our experience with projects such as the Pacific Trails pipeline, which required the agreement of approximately 15 first nations, it takes quite a while with regard to communications and resourcing the first nations to look at them. In the end, that project was supported. There were 15 first nations communities that came together, and they realized that the benefit package was quite substantial. Also, the resourcing to review the project was quite important. Although the project is still in the queue and hasn't gone forward, it was approved by 15 first nations.
However, that doesn't mean these linear projects, which require up to 50, 60-plus first nations communities.... The difficulty is that it's quite...too many first nations communities. Those first nations should be allowed to create groups, as the league of representatives stated, but there may also be some independents that require more resourcing. Smaller groups or independent first nations require the resourcing to look at the projects to really assert their right to make decisions.
Overall, and I see a common theme here, we're trying to implement the free, prior, and informed consent as well as the ability to make decisions for our indigenous peoples. I think that's what all the presenters stated today.