Qujannamiik, Iksivautaq.
NDP-67, as you mentioned, looks to amend clause 29, with the heading “Environmental protection”. It would be amended by replacing lines 16 and 17 on page 16 with the following::
the Fisheries Act, the Migratory Birds Con-
It would also replace line 20 on page 16 with the following:
tions made under those Acts protect the environment as much as or more than First Nations laws.
The differentiation is that first nations who have stewarded, maintained and lived on these lands since time immemorial have already been governing with the best intentions of protecting the environment even more than what we've seen in the last 150 years or so of past governments and their laws. Basically, it's showing that the amendment would be to help ensure the protection of the environment as much as or more than with first nations laws.
Qujannamiik.