Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, I'm not sure you're ever going to get a fully standard set of regulations across the country. Some of the functions are better served through incorporation by reference to provincial regulations, say for waste water, but with adaptations to meet first nations needs. Zoning

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't, sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The paper does a brief analysis of some of the inspection-associated costs for a couple of functions in a couple of provinces, just to be illustrative, but we haven't done a comprehensive study on that front.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Definitely they don't mesh well. The provinces do not play a role on reserve, and that is one of the questions and one of the issues, but right now they do not play a role.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is not on these issues. In other areas there is more collaboration, I believe, but not related to this.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't think I understood the question. I'm sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think I understand. One of the options we did say was that the first nations can continue to work under the federal regulatory regime, where one exists, and then the liability continues to rest with the federal government, which is where it is now. Where we identified there m

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have done other work on other areas; I don't have that information with me. But we have done cost analysis for other areas as well.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe so, yes. I could check our papers for that if you like.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In addition, if you're looking at.... I talked about the various subject matters with regard to land and water and those kinds of things. But if you look at an effective regulatory regime, it starts with approvals processes. There are certification requirements. Actually, there

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure I actually have a proposal. When we did this paper, we were not looking at the administration of the act and its process. We were looking, again, at the regulatory options for first nations as they move forward. So I'm not sure I have an option for you there.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. Our paper did look at some of the costs of implementing a comparable provincial regime, in terms of the cost to have an inspector, how many—I think it was about 60% more in support staff to support that inspector—and those kinds of things. We did look at the huge cost of the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For example, in Ontario—and this is, again, four years ago—the salary level for inspectors ranged from $63,000 to $75,000 annually, with benefits on the top. Saskatchewan's range was similar at $59,000 to $72,000. Then there were the travel costs associated with inspections. They

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That was water, in Ontario only. Because of the expertise required, these are not inexpensive positions to fill and to support.