Thank you to our guests who are here with us today. I found all the testimony fascinating, and respectfully, I really appreciate everybody's view on this. I'm going to direct my questions to Chief Chamberlin.
Chief Chamberlin, respectfully, you did say some things about our previous government not engaging with first nations, and I feel compelled to have to stand up and—while we're here for the Fisheries Act review—talk about some of the good things that we did.
Our government did engage with first nations. You mentioned in a previous question that there was some funding that was put forth. We signed 95 contribution agreements that provided funding for over approximately 165 first nation communities specifically with relation to fisheries. There was $7 million for the aboriginal aquatic resource and oceans management agreement that we signed.
We signed an MOU after the Fisheries Act was done in 2013 with Grand Chief Ed John, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, as well as regional chief and now-minister within this government, Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, with respect to the first nations fisheries memorandum of understanding with the agreement that we would work collaboratively together and move forward together. We spent up to $465 million annually on salmon, and $23 million of that was spent within the province of British Columbia.
Chief Chamberlin, today we're here about the Fisheries Act review. Can you tell me how the changes to the Fisheries Act negatively affected or took away first nations fishing rights?