Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Excuse me, I'm the last on the list of speakers.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and fellow committee members. I thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee this morning. The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations fully support all statements made by the Council of Yukon First Nations and other first nations partners at the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have had a couple of conversations, but they were more sharing pieces. They were not what we would term consultation in the strict legal definition of “consultation”. The territorial government has come and presented its case. At one of our initial meetings, the premier state

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that. We did hear the premier present us with a bit of an olive branch, but the olive branch is a little bit late. We would have liked to see a trilateral accord set up among the federal, territorial, and Yukon first nations governments to deal with any of these i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our recommendation is that the government first table the current bill and remove the four contentious issues. Then we can start talking about a trilateral accord that will deal with development in the territory.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We spent 20 years developing our land claim and a further 10 years developing the YESAA process. We went into it in good faith and with the notion that if there were going to be substantive changes to any one of the parts of our land claim agreement, Yukon first nations would be

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a really quick note on the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation. We've received word that there may have been some emergency issue that happened in Carmacks last night, so that may preclude the chief and his associates from joining the meeting this

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, they will. The amendments will align more and bring YESAA into where we were at the conclusion of the five-year review. At the conclusion of the five-year review, these were amendments that were brought in very eleventh hour and were brought in for just a short two-hour wind

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we're not anti-development.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I don't feel that. In any of our workings, for Champagne and Aishihik in particular, we are negotiating in the final stages, and we're getting ready to initial an exploration benefits agreement with a mining company within our own traditional territory. Anti-development I t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sorry, can you repeat that?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we do. We feel that the way the timelines have been written within YESAA, they are already being achieved. What happens in the timelines is usually a delay getting the proper information, so whenever assessment comes, they effect it, and then they have to re-effect it whenev

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Can I defer this to Roger Brown, our technician?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Not to Champagne and Aishihik. Roger.