Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I'll try it in English. When I have the opportunity to speak English, I enjoy it. My partner speaks English only; she does not speak French at all. I have to honour her. As I was saying earlier to Romeo, in June 2018, it will be 40 years for us. That's what my people

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay, go ahead. Sometimes I go crazy so....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've always been sitting on the back bench, sitting and watching this country develop as everybody gets rich. For many years, our people couldn't really profit from that. Just go back in history. My grandfather got the right to vote in 1969. Before that, he couldn't vote. That's

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are definitely some issues with the comprehensive claims policy. You are talking about moratoriums, but moratoriums have already been imposed in Quebec, precisely to stop the development of our lands during the negotiation. That worked briefly, but, as I said, it does not

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For my part, since it was all fresh news when we heard about that a couple of weeks ago, we were wondering what's going to happen with this. I know it's a new direction, a new step. My first advice would be to really work with first nations. First nations are the ones who benef

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  So far, all we got was a letter saying what their intention is. They also invited us to offer input, but we're still analyzing what our priority is with that and what our input will be with this new change. We're also trying to assess our worries with this new approach. As I said

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Personally, I was not aware of any pre-consultation. Everyone was taken by surprise. With the people I work with, it was a surprise. We're still trying to figure out if it is a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe it's a good thing. One is going to deal with the relations with first

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From my young experience—I was not even born when they started negotiating—what I think is that there are many factors, and one of the factors is good faith. For a long time good faith was not present at the table. It has started getting better for a couple of years maybe. For tw

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's 88 square kilometres.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's in the centre of Quebec.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's natural resources. Now there's more mining development.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's farming in the south, but mostly it's forestry. Let's say our land has been cut at least once or twice since the creation of this industry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.