Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, sorry, Madam Chair. This is just a question. Do we only have one presentation?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Stephen, I don't have to imagine that. I'm the only first nation member of Parliament in Ontario. I have family members in homes, and I know that. I know from our community members that we face that discrimination in homes that are in our communities. There's not that cultural un

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You had a little break.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Chiefs, for travelling a far way. It's a trip I'm well used to. I do it twice a week. I've been to both of your communities: Wikwemikong, a large community on Manitoulin Island and, of course, Fort William First Nation in my riding, my largest first nation community.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, in terms of an infrastructure program, I guess for Chief Peltier it would be an infrastructure program for renewal of the facilities and possible expansion, and for Fort William new construction...?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of your dealings with the provincial government, you mentioned a bit of that in your presentation. We have a new provincial government in Ontario. How have those conversations progressed with the new government in power? Is there push-back on plans that you have going fo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's still—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They're still reviewing. Essentially, you haven't had conversations, but in terms of the administration, I guess the bureaucrats are still on hold until the provincial government does their review of whatever they're doing a review of.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Hopefully it continues along.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for presenting today. I, like Ms. Blaney, am very curious. One of my curiosities is in terms of transmission projects. Marco was talking about the long-term, generational connection projects. Are there many of those projects contemplated or included in the framework th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are a couple of different options for getting electricity into the communities. Most of the communities in the Arctic region operate on diesel generators. Some communities, in and around my riding, operate on diesel generators. I know that recently—not in my riding, but j

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's what I'm getting at. I think we need to be innovative. One of the questions rolling through my head had to do with the Arctic policy framework and looking at providing energy and all the other things these communities need in terms of transportation, food supply and housi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you to all the presenters for coming, and for coming as far as you had to come. I'm going to be sharing my time with the member for Nunavut, Mr. Tootoo, but before that I have just one question. It is a question I asked NRCan officials here the other day. You're talking a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a bundled project. It's $1.2 billion for fibre and for transmission?