Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, there are some final comments. When we started this process, Prime Minister Harper came to the Yukon very soon after he was elected, and he said to the Yukon and to these areas that these modern-day treaties were an opportunity for Canada and for the first nations to really advance relationships and creativity.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I presume so. I will have to follow up. As I said, this is not one of the things currently on my file.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I haven't been made aware of it, so as far as I know, it hasn't.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Do you mean on the specific claims? Is that correct? Are you referring to a negotiator for the specific claims? That's a specific claim process. Sorry, I didn't hear your comment.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, one wasn't appointed, because it's been a tribunal. We have some legal counsel monitoring it, but there is no negotiation on it. It's a specific claim. That's a dialogue we need, right? We're not quite sure of what's happening or some of the reasons it's been rejected and whatnot.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've not heard back on it, so I'm hoping it's going forward.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, it doesn't. None of our claims has a value of over $150 million. They're all under $150 million. In terms of the specific claims process, under $150 million is what we're discussing.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sorry, I didn't catch all of your question.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As has been pointed out, two of them have been rejected. If the specific claims process has been set up to make things more efficient, and if the efficiency is to reject the claims, it's not efficient for us. We need to have more dialogue and more input as to why they've been rejected.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe so, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, this is where I say that if the efficiency is to drop these options or reject them, it's not more efficient for us. I'd rather have more time than just drop them off. I don't believe that we had enough grounds. There was other information; oftentimes the court process would be more thorough in that, and we would have that opportunity in a court.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We did do on one of them. I think there was more information that we had looked at. We had requested some funding and we got some research, because some of this research is obviously in Ottawa and some in the areas. I believe that for one of them we did. For the other one, I don't recall our having that further input.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct.