I have some questions for Chief John, and we'll see if this works out.
The first thing is that the committee recently heard from the chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Chief Allan Adam, who spoke about the benefits of the oil and gas sector and the desire to maximize benefits. We heard from him that there is a great deal of frustration, however, when it comes to working out impact benefit agreements on traditional territories. He said, in his experience, that industry makes the process very complicated and lobbies federal government officials very heavily.
I guess I'd like him to comment on his experience with the process. That would be the first question.
Second, I understand that he participated in the first nations LNG summit last year. I'd like to know from him what challenges the summit identified with respect to the impact of energy development on first nations communities and what recommendations he'd like to see the committee make to the government.
Third—I'd like to hear comments from other witnesses on this as well, and perhaps if they have comments on the other questions that I raised, that would be fine. I'd like a short comment in relation to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline proposal in terms of both benefits and risks that he or they see involved with the process that has been followed so far.