Good afternoon. I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to the 76th meeting of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs. We acknowledge that we meet on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe peoples.
Pursuant to the Standing Orders, we're in a hybrid format today, with one witness who is online.
We're going to have two panels today.
Mr. Buffalo, we've started. If you want to turn on your video, we want to make sure your technology is working.
That's perfect. It's good to see you. Welcome.
For you specifically, Mr. Buffalo, because the others are here in the room, you are able to choose the language on your screen. There's either floor audio, which is whatever language is being used, or English or French. We want to get that set. We can't mute you, so you'll need to mute and unmute yourself. When it's your turn to speak, we'll get you to do that.
Now that we've started, there are no photos or screenshots allowed. I think we're good to go with that.
I'd like to welcome Mr. Stephen Buffalo of the Indian Resource Council.
We also have with us Amanda Simon and Albert Marshall of the National Aboriginal Land Managers Association.
Welcome to you.
That will be our first panel. We have about an hour, so we'll go until 6:05 or so.
I always like to start with our online guest. Just while we have the technology working, it's good to start with you.
I'll also mention that I'll keep track of time. You'll have five minutes for opening statements. When you're 30 seconds from the end of your time, I'll give you the yellow card, so start getting ready to wind up. When you reach the end of your allotted time, I'll give you the red card. Don't stop in mid-sentence, but do wind up your thoughts, and we'll go to the next person or the next round of questions.
With that, I think we have all our regular members here, except for Mr. Chandra Arya.
Welcome to our committee today.
Mr. Buffalo, I'll put five minutes on the clock. We're ready to go whenever you're ready.