Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for attending today and your very compelling testimony
I appreciate a lot of the comments. When you look at the default prevention and management policy, it's very much a top-down approach. We heard about the importance of creating capacity and capability. We've also heard about the importance of community and community information.
Certainly the transparency act was an attempt to ensure that community members have access to basic information. When I was a mayor of a small town, my community had every ability to hold me to account. To me, it's all part of a package. If we're developing capacity and we're developing capacity in communities, information is the first piece.
Of course, with this government, one of the first things they did was to say they weren't going to enforce the transparency act.
I'd like to talk to Loretta.
You talked to CBC quite a while ago, in October, about the frustration of information and getting spun around. We brought that up with the minister in November, and she just said, the “chief and council report to their members and to my department. That is the way it is, and we will review any additions or reviews with first nations as we go forward.”
Can you tell me, how is getting access to information in your community—?