Joyce Murray at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

On October 22nd, 2012. See this statement in context.

October 22nd, 2012 / 4:10 p.m.

Liberal

Joyce Murray Liberal Vancouver Quadra, BC

Thank you.

Thanks for being here to present to the committee.

I spent 25 years building a business from small to medium-sized, so I'm very interested in the issue of own-source revenue. The concern that I know some first nations have expressed is that it would challenge their competitiveness to have the kind of disclosure that's contemplated. In British Columbia, there are first nations that have investments in resorts, wineries, forestry, construction, and road building, in all sorts of industries that are extremely competitive.

Can you, Mr. Graham, see a potential situation in which the disclosure of the information on the own-source revenue might give a competitive disadvantage to a first nation in terms of competing for some work?

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