Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. The change was proposed in response to concerns that were raised by indigenous groups. One of the concerns expressed is that the notion of traditional knowledge seemed fixed in time, whereas the fact is their knowledge evolved over time. While it may be b

Environment committee  That would be correct. That is the gist of why we have a definition that indicates that indigenous knowledge is the knowledge of the indigenous peoples of Canada. It's in direct reference to what we consider indigenous peoples' [Inaudible—Editor].

Environment committee  The definition is certainly applicable to the entire statute. The preamble forms part of it. If there's any doubt, the references to UNDRIP inside of the statute will serve to interpret as well what is in the preamble, I would think.

Environment committee  Madam Chair, I'm afraid we're going to have to look into this. I don't have the answer to that question.

Environment committee  Madam Chair, off the top of my head, I don't know of such legislation. If you'll allow me a minute or two, I can look it up for you.

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. There are a number of references to municipalities in federal legislation. Some of them are for descriptive purposes to identify a location. Others are in reference to specific functions under statutes—although this search of mine is by no means exhaustiv

Environment committee  That would be correct, Madam Chair. In the Federal Sustainable Development Act, sustainability means “the capacity of a thing, action, activity or process to be maintained indefinitely".

Environment committee  Yes. The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement is usually considered the very first modern treaty with indigenous groups in Canada.

Environment committee  I'm sorry, Madam Chair, I'm trying to catch up with the—

Environment committee  I understand where we are. I'm just looking at subsection (2.1) and trying to figure out how this is going to work with proposed subsection (2). In a sense you'd have to reconcile what is apparently a closed listing—

Environment committee  —at (2), and then under (2.1) we'd have something that's more open. I'm going to have to think about this a bit, Madam Chair, unfortunately.

Environment committee  Madam Chair, we considered the interplay between the proposed subsection (2), and what would now be (2.1). Proposed subsection (2) would be a closed list, an exhaustive list of topics to consider.

Environment committee  Proposed subsection (2) is an exhaustive list.

Environment committee  That's correct, although you would need to go through proposed subsection (2) before you get to proposed subsection (2.1).

Environment committee  Thank you, Madame Chair. There are none that I can see. “Reasons” and “rationale” can be used interchangeably.