Tina Keeper at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On February 6th, 2008. See this statement in context.

February 6th, 2008 / 4:55 p.m.

Liberal

Tina Keeper Liberal Churchill, MB

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I'd like to thank you for staying so that we have this time.

I'd like to go back to clauses 22 and 23, around the issue of the provinces, and the fact that the minister said that they don't have to acknowledge liability. If they'd like to be a party, then they can notify the tribunal in writing. I'm a little confused about the relationship, then, of the crown and the first nations in this process, because what he stated was that this is the only way the province would be involved.

Is that right, that it's only if the province decides to be involved?

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