Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You've already touched on a couple of them, but you're right there are several others that are worth mentioning to this committee, which address the wide variety of issues that Andrew outlined in his opening remarks. For example, additions to reserve is a process that many first

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Perhaps I'll field that one as well. Margaret touched on it briefly earlier, but a regulatory gap really is the absence of adequate laws, including the regulations and the monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, to govern those activities. That gap may exist either because we're n

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll provide a point of view on that. The experience I described earlier in the relatively short lifespan of the legislation, where there was a slow uptake and then accelerating to a point where we now have a demand that exceeds our capacity, provides a strong indication that th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Let me add to his response that another point was mentioned that I think is quite important to the conversation, and that's on the issue of regulatory gaps. One of the large impediments to economic development on reserves is that the way projects are regulated on those reserve

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is a matter of some discussion, and we are working on it. Defining what success means is never evident, so it is a process that we have to go through. The kinds of themes we have been discussing are in line with the comments my colleague made at the beginning. We see this as a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. It's an excellent one. When the regime started, there was a fair amount of uncertainty. It was a fairly large change. It took the experience of some first nations that had gone through it and proved its benefits to gather attention from additional fir