Finance committee  Absolutely. Totally.

Finance committee  They do. From a technical point of view it's challenging. It's challenging to manage land under the Indian Act, let alone your own policies and procedures under your code. Ultimately, it's a political decision. In our organization, when politicians make the decision to go that wa

Finance committee  No, we've attempted on two occasions to get a champion there and to form a regional association. This past September, we had our national gathering in the Yukon, in the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. I believe we are enticing some land managers there to be part of our organization

Finance committee  Adding land to reserve, expanding the reserves, gives potential for economic development opportunities. It all comes hand in hand, acquiring lands for betterment, for natural resources.... Now when we add land to the reserve it's under the Indian Act at first, so settlement lands

Finance committee  Good morning, everyone. My name is Leona Irons. I'm the executive director for the National Aboriginal Lands Managers Association. I'm here to speak on behalf of the association, specifically to the budget implementation act, 2018, no. 2, division 19, part 4, the enactment of t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is one other thing: I have a PowerPoint presentation that outlines the other requirements associated with a designation. Again, thank you very much for the opportunity to speak. We look forward to seeing the study.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We'd like to begin by honouring and acknowledging the traditional territory of the Algonquin people. We'd like to thank the standing committee for inviting us to speak today. We look upon this as an opportunity to create awareness of raising professional standards in first nation

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  But did the training help you?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm glad you asked that question, because developing tool kits takes a long time, especially for difficult subject matters like designation. The designation tool kit will focus basically on the readiness to do a designation. We'll have a lot of information on the processes, templ

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're looking at a target of about three days of training.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a two-year training program. They take the level one in one year. For those students who have successfully completed level one, we get them in level two.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not aware of the budget the university receives from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Our training budget to deliver level-two technical training is about $261,000, and that's to train 20 first nations.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, that does have its challenges, and there are supports within the university to deal with that. By the time we get them into our level two, they've improved. I'm glad you asked what direct things, other than capacity, we need in terms of our additional resources. There ar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First of all, it's not funded through any program. There are bits and pieces here and there, but one of our challenges is the cost of the technology as well as a long-term commitment for a technician to operate it, and I think you can appreciate that. I know, Aaron, you used th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a level of how you deal with those types of land transactions. Aaron, Joe, you're working directly with that. Is there something you can add to that?