Fisheries committee  I'm not sure if they're so different, but we have a land claims agreement that lays out an allocation system and a management system and the recognition of Inuit systems of wildlife management and so on, which we try our best to rely upon. But you have to have implementation legi

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I would suggest there are some statutes that have recognized traditional knowledge in decision-making and so on, that are already in place. I would recommend, for instance, the Species at Risk Act, or if you go up to Nunavut, in our Nunavut Wildlife Act. There are pre

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, there are four more recommendations. The third one is that the standing committee reject as inadequate and procedurally unfair the process by which the 2012 modifications to the act were developed and brought into force. The next one is that the standing committee re

Fisheries committee  My colleague, Mr. Ray Andrews, and I are going to share our 10 minutes of speaking time. We're going to divide that into four related topics. First, I'll provide a brief description of NWMB's fisheries jurisdiction under the Nunavut land claims agreement. Second, I'm going to set

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm Michael d'Eça, legal counsel to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, which I will refer to as the NWMB or the board. Mr. Chair, could I ask you to tell us when we have two minutes remaining?

Environment committee  Correct, yes.

Environment committee  I didn't catch where that's being applied, but those aren't Nunavut's statistics you're giving me.

Environment committee  I do think it is. I think you have to make aboriginal people more aware of it. You may have to look at increasing the budget for it. And I should also tell you that only about $550,000 of that per year goes to basically all of the west and NWT and Nunavut. So very little finds it

Environment committee  Thank you for the questions. On the consultation process the government follows, if you don't have a copy of this MOU we've talked about today between the NWMB and government, the committee should probably get a copy of it, because it is actually a good-news story under SARA. W

Environment committee  First of all, I can tell you that the NWMB, an administrative tribunal whose public is for the most part aboriginal people, sympathizes with the kinds of concerns you are laying out in terms of consultation and in terms of being able to react quickly and so on. I think an underl

Environment committee  Yes, it's very much the case within Nunavut. It's an oral tradition.

Environment committee  Yes. There's a research centre in Igloolik, on Baffin Island, that has been, for many, many years, collecting traditional knowledge, known among Inuit as Qaujimajatuqangit. There are lots of individual efforts at collecting traditional knowledge right across the country, and cert

Environment committee  That kind of echoes the recommendation for this aboriginal traditional knowledge institute we are calling for. However, the nature of traditional knowledge is that it's often local. So yes, there should be coordination. There should certainly be standards for collecting tradition

Environment committee  First of all, I think it is necessary to prioritize your resources. From the perspective of the NWMB and the land claim under which we operate, it talks in terms of social, economic, and cultural needs of Inuit. So we tend to look at that. But actually in terms of determining wh

Environment committee  Yes, that's correct. We got that information from the 2008 status report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development to the House of Commons.