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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, it's quite a significant turnaround on the part of first nations. They had the opportunity to contribute to this process. They now believe that the government is finally doing something about processing these claims in a timely and fair manner.
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February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Well, the clock will start again.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee With the additions-to-reserve process, there is a discussion going on with the AFN as well about that policy and how best to revise it. So those discussions are under way—
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Those who ask will get it.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I believe it was, yes.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Over $150 million.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We're still engaged with the AFN to work out that process. As a matter of fact, I'm going to Vancouver on Thursday to meet with the AFN to finalize the process that we will agree on regarding how we're going to process these claims.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, we provided funding for them to review their claim and to provide any additional evidence or case law that might apply since the claim had been filed.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee No, mediation was to continue until March 31. The inquiry side was shut down as of December 31. Now they're doing their final report.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Madame Dupuis decided to close the mediation function as of December 1, in effect.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee At the commission. We've been contracting with others to provide the mediation services until we can get a new mediation function in place.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee That's correct.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee There were about 18 claims still with the commission when the decision was taken to close the commission. We decided that the ones that were actually into the inquiry process should continue to the completion of the inquiry. For those claims that had not started into the inquiry process, we brought them back into the department and gave the first nations an opportunity to review the claim and to give us any new information they might have, and then we'll process them through our normal assessment.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Ralph Brant