You are involved when there are consultations that have gone on. However, you weren't involved if consultations happened on the tanker exclusion zone, and my suspicion is that nothing happened, despite the duty to consult, as we've discussed. It sounds like that's the case, given that your department is not aware of any having taken place.
Can I ask if any of your departments are aware of or were involved in any consultations around the imposition of a moratorium on offshore drilling in the Arctic?
For those listening to the audio, no one is responding, so I'm assuming that's a no.
Is anybody aware of any consultations that took place before the Prime Minister imposed the offshore drilling moratorium in the Arctic?
I just identified two major government policies in which there would appear to very much be a duty to consult. What we're hearing is that no consultation with indigenous people happened in either of those cases.
We're here to talk about best practices for indigenous consultation. How should we explain the fact that Canada failed, or appears to have failed, to do any consultation before imposing these significant policies with critical impacts on indigenous communities? Does anybody have any thoughts on how that error could have happened?