Environment committee  I don't mean to speak ahead of our other presenter. This is what I was getting at earlier; I think we need to sit down together, all peoples of this land, including all of the indigenous peoples. A very interesting thing happened in the U.S. two weeks ago. President Obama invit

Environment committee  Thank you. The point I was going to make is that costs do not have to rise if we work together to develop the economy. The difficulty right now is you only get a margin of the views out there and then you develop a response. That doesn't work. That most likely might be happening

Environment committee  Yes, I'm aware that Canada is making an effort, but it's a dismal one.

Environment committee  I am familiar with Canada's position. Yes, I am familiar.

Environment committee  I have not read them, but our technical people have summarized them for me.

Environment committee  I am aware that's an intention of Canada.

Environment committee  I'm not aware of that.

Environment committee  I do not have it with me.

Environment committee  I have not had a chance to read it. I do have an idea of what it entails, and I know my people in the Northwest Territories—at least 25,000 of them—have not read it either.

Environment committee  I want to answer the question in a way that relates to the bill. I don't mean to pull the committee one way or the other; I'm expressing a view from where I am in the world. Your job is to take that and use it in a way that will help you through this. Mr. Chairman, in addressin

Environment committee  Again, thank you for the question. The anthropologists tell us we've lived here for at least 30,000 years. The oil and other resources in the ground have been there for a long time. Our people, to a large extent, knew they were there. We used some of those resources. We understa

Environment committee  We've been approached, and I believe we will have someone on delegations. It will either be National Chief Shawn Atleo or most likely me. I understand that youth have also been asked to be a part of Canada's delegation. The problem, though, is if we're on their delegation we gene

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Yes, I can, thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question, sir. First of all, we need to come to terms with the fact that global warming and climate change are actually happening. It's man-made. It's not something that nature has created. We have to admit that climate change is a reality, global war