Fisheries committee  Thank you. My name is Eli, and I'm from Clayoquot on the west coast of Vancouver Island. We're one of 14 Nuu-chah-nulth nations who have been along the west coast of Vancouver Island since time immemorial. I also associate with an organization called the ICCA Consortium. The ICC

Fisheries committee  Yes. Where I'm from in Clayoquot, we're living with a 300-year plan that was cast in 1914.

Fisheries committee  By Eddy Joseph, Jimmy Jim, Wickaninnish, and Muchnik. They are our Ha’wiih, our hereditary chiefs, and they have the responsibility of creating long-term planning processes. Currently, we're living within a 300-year time horizon that was forecast by them, but we also have started

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  What I'd like to bring to your attention is the historical outlawing of the fish weir. The fish weir is a very important kind of technology that is still available to us. It was used by our ancestors to responsibly manage ocean and particularly salmon resources. These kinds of so

Fisheries committee  Yes. It goes as far as our salmon go, into international waters.

Fisheries committee  Parks Canada has done a really good job of this so far. What they did was set a new table. They left a whole bunch of seats empty, and they asked the indigenous people to decide who would sit at the table. It has created a very good relationship. The ECC and Parks Canada have be

Fisheries committee  I think we're at about 11% on the terrestrial target, and we're at 0.9% on the marine target until the end of this year, I imagine. I think on the terrestrial side we're doing okay.

Fisheries committee  That is a very good insight, because the marine protected areas and the terrestrial side, from an indigenous perspective, have to communicate with each other better.

Fisheries committee  Yes. From a Nuu-chah-nulth perspective, the heart of the problem is a dysfunctional world view, a world that sees things in pieces, a disconnected world view. In our language, heshook-ish tsawalk is our way of understanding the interconnection of everything. I think whether it's

Fisheries committee  Yes. In our language, qwii-qwiq-sap is the process of transformation that is happening. My elders assure me that the natural world will adapt. It will be fine in regard to climate change. We have to stop getting in its way. We have to stop doing harm. First, do no harm: this is t

Fisheries committee  In Anishinabe it does, yes.

Fisheries committee  It is. It's becoming a trans-Canadian thank you. Meegwetch.

Fisheries committee  I think when we have systematic violence against the earth, it creates violence within the communities. There's a high correlation between intensive primary industry activities and social degradation and domestic violence. My mother worked at a women's shelter for 25 years. She s

Fisheries committee  Yes, from an indigenous people's and local community's perspective the kinds of marine protected areas that are most desirable would be those that have a balanced perspective on sustainable livelihoods. Within the area wherever you're creating the marine protected area, in a Can