Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can answer that. We do have statements from the Tlicho that they were very happy with the process itself during meetings. There was extensive and meaningful consultation. As you rightly put it, there is always accommodation, and that's why it did take us so long to prepare t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. My name is Stephen Traynor, and I'm the director of resource policy and programs with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. I had the distinct pleasure of directing the teams that pu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Certainly. That's why it's often very complex up north, given the ownership by Inuit, for example. They have responsibility for the land, so they would be responsible themselves for the ownership and how the mine operates, based on the environmental assessment from the impact rev

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The key ones right now are particularly Meadowbank, which is moving forward, and Baffinland.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is, because they have a tracking system up there whereby each individual project that comes in where there is a project agreement between federal departments to work toward key timelines for the project is put on the website and on this tracker, and you're able to track projec

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I can help, it is supposed to be a public organization--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It certainly depends on whose land the mining development is on. In particular, as I recall, Meadowbank is actually on Inuit-owned land. The organization responsible would be the regional Inuit association, in this case the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, which is part of NTI, as Pa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Certainly. We can look within the context of the Paul Mayer report and the discussions that resulted from it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I am involved in regulatory improvement, but I was previously in Nunavut in the department. After the Berger report, we had the Paul Mayer report, which looked at the receptivity for devolution. Within the context of those discussions, they struck some committee works and had som

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You're certainly right. The Yukon jurisdiction was very much touted. We were at a lot of meetings and discussions with the Yukon and other jurisdictions, and at the exploration roundups in Vancouver, which the Yukon often goes to, and that regime was touted as a good regime to be