Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee on Sept. 19th, 2017

Evidence of meeting #67 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was agreement.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Specific Claims and Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements
Committee Business
Election of Vice-Chairs

MPs speaking

MaryAnn Mihychuk
Arnold Viersen
Gary Anandasangaree
Cathy McLeod
Romeo Saganash
Mike Bossio
William Amos
Kevin Waugh

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee  Mr. Michael MacPherson
Perry Billingsley  Associate Deputy Minister, Treaties and Aboriginal Government, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Stephen Gagnon  Director General, Specific Claims Branch, Treaties and Aboriginal Government, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development

Noon

Associate Deputy Minister, Treaties and Aboriginal Government, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development

Perry Billingsley

We have about 46 negotiation tables across the country, from the Northwest Territories to transboundary agreements between Yukon and B.C., and B.C. into Yukon. We have an agreement that we're negotiating or a claim that we're negotiating in the Maritimes, but the majority of our business is in B.C. It's an active business plan.

Noon

Conservative

Kevin Waugh Conservative Saskatoon—Grasswood, SK

Thank you very much.

Noon

Liberal

The Chair Liberal MaryAnn Mihychuk

That concludes our first hour. I want to thank the department for coming out and all of you for enlightening us in our journey, our beginning, our adventure, in land claims, specific and comprehensive.

Thank you very much for coming. Meegwetch.

We will take a short break because we are now going to move to the in camera committee business section.

We'll have a five-minute break, and then we'll come back to business.

[Proceedings continue in camera]