Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll deal with your second question on the refining first. There are operations that have been instituted on the reserve. In our instance, we've had a plant that was put up. It was commissioned, then decommissioned, and it was later removed. There is som

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, that helps me. I think each first nation is different. Some of them are willing to deal with the province, therefore they do tripartite agreements. One example may be the social services delivery, such as child welfare, education, some of these others. I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Chief Clifford is a board member there, so he would have a better idea on that. And maybe Doug is aware of some of the board meeting schedules.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sorry to interrupt. I don't think you're the chairman, either.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Former Chief Wesley was a co-chair about four or five years ago, I believe.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The involvement with the Indian Resource Council and IOGC in this process has been one of review. Usually we receive documentation, draft notices or draft legislation, and then we're asked to review that, but that's usually at a later date. You make it sound like we're involved i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I may have a problem with that statement, because there are other first nations that can say that. Siksika First Nation is a leader. White Bear First Nation is a leader. There are others, including Horse Lake. The FNOGMMA bands, essentially, are the leading bands right now.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That would have been one of our other committees. We have a consultation team. They are not represented here today. That team has been mandated by the chief and council of the three first nations to deal with preliminary legislation, policies and whatnot, coming down from the pro

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Stoney oil and gas committee met with them at a later date.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The meetings at that time were information meetings. We met with Mr. Dan Stojanowski and Mr. John Dempsey. Those were information sessions. They were to be coming back in the spring, I believe, to receive our comments, which we had identified to be in March, April. We have not me

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Over the period that we have been involved--I became involved in 1999--a lot of these issues were recurring and we had been bringing them up before in previous administrations. When we did prepare a package, that crystallized when the legislation was introduced.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think it's difficult for the province to identify and know the interests of first nations. They have their own interests at heart. They're not able to understand this fiduciary relationship, and we're running into problems with that right now in the oil a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll ask Mr. Rae to comment on that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have many meetings with IOGC. It would depend. We have a Stoney oil and gas committee. There are many different groups that interact with different levels of government.