Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would only be guessing, but if I were a member of that nation, I'd be suspicious.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Not enough, and I say that not facetiously or anything else. I think success will finally show through when the federal government starts to put pressure on the British Columbia government. We have those issues all along the border. We have them with Acho Dene Koe. We have them with the Kakisa Dene.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just on that, without naming any nations, we're dealing with at least six. Some are just as sensitive as the one that slipped out of Sophie's mouth a few minutes ago, and the same results.... But if a small nation with a major interest in getting to a treaty for their economic benefits and other issues has a large nation right beside them that has no interest in finalizing a treaty, then the reverse of what you suggest becomes true.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The reality is that in British Columbia, every nation has overlaps with their neighbours, some more than others and some less than others. This is probably one of the more significant ones, although we have a couple in other parts of British Columbia that we're also working on.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We just got a call two days ago, actually. There are three or four interests in that area. There's the Stó:lo Tribal Council, there's the Stó:lo Nation, and the Yale, of course. On any given day, they may or may not get along, although they're all related and they're all families.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. We have started to intervene in the processes where we run into overlaps on shared territories. We had a big success on the west coast with one treaty that was being implemented, and we developed an accord with another nation that's not even the process, within days before the implementation of that treaty.