Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We can only speak to the generality. It offers a legislative opportunity to do so. I can't speak to the particulars. I'm sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's my understanding that the reason the land management legislation was introduced was to provide an opt-in clause for first nations to, in effect, opt out of the Indian Act and move to this specific regime where they would have the opportunity to develop what would work for th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'd like to take a shot at some of them at least. I think the first one is the issue of capacity building among first nations. You used the example of the Land Claims Agreements Coalition—the Nisga'a, for example. You have to bear in mind our organization is very small. We hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the invitation and for your time today. My name is Marion Lefebvre. I'm the vice-president for aboriginal governance at the Institute on Governance. I'm going to take a moment to tell you a bit about our organization, and then I will turn this over to my