Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for your questions. On the specific amendments I read out, that is the position of the AFN. Those are the amendments of the Assembly of First Nations. They asked me to speak here today. They said that was their position. As I said before, these are laudable goals, a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Stoney nations: Wesley, Chiniki, and Bearspaw. I've spoken with officials from there, and they have these concerns as well. I also have been speaking with some of the legal team that worked on the Samson case.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Five.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I'm not.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You're asking about my sense of it?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My sense is that some first nations would like to see this proceed and are in agreement with it, but others are not. The Assembly of First Nations represents many governments, and even the ones that are oil and gas producing and have oil and gas on their lands, such as mine, are

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I thank the committee members for their questions. I take very seriously the concern that you have raised. I think the issue centres around the whole issue of consultation. It's an issue that's being talked about very much these days. I think that in my first nation, we w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I do apologize. I should have had a written text submitted to this committee prior so that you would have had an opportunity to review it in both French and in English. So I do apologize for that, and I will endeavour to get this text over to you as quickly as I possibly can. Al

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I do realize it does appear from my remarks that they're not consistent; however, I think I was consistent. I have said that, yes, there was some consultation, there was some discussion. I don't speak for the IRC, but yes, you're right, we do have some substantive con

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right. Well, I'm not here on behalf of the IRC.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We would all like that, I think, but as I said in my remarks, there are some first nations that would have liked to have been in attendance before this committee to present more of their positions on some of the more substantive aspects of the legislation. I didn't get to touch o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have a lot more to say and it will be difficult to summarize all of it. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can do that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can do that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, and good morning. I want to thank the committee for giving me the opportunity to make a presentation today on behalf of the Assembly of First Nations and also on behalf of my own first nation, the Montana Cree Nation, located at Hobbema, Alberta. I don't know if thi