Great. Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Chief, I'd like to chat with you for a second. You mentioned in your testimony that you're under the impression that the provincial and federal governments are continually lobbied to work against the interests of first nations. Could you provide us the names of the individuals or anybody you're aware of?
I've been a member of Parliament for eight years. I've been on the environment committee, and the fisheries committee. As a matter of fact, I travelled to your community with the environment committee a few years ago. I'm a member of the natural resources committee now. Every single witness who I've heard come before here, whether they're a department official or an industry official, or whether they're from a first nations, has advised us that they want to involve and create opportunities for neighbouring or adjacent first nations communities to realize the potential benefits of the economic impacts of development in their areas.
You seem to be giving me a different story, completely different from what I'm used to hearing. You allege that there are all these lobbyists and so on down here. I don't know who they are. Could you tell me who they are?