Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  So far, yes. We've not had any major, major problem.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Out of the four? That's difficult.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, we definitely want that site cleaned up—the radon site. That's one of our priorities. The other priority is that it's coming into the spring season and there's more we have to spend on transporting our vehicles back and forth. We're not getting additional moneys for our p

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we weren't. Besides the federal contaminated site, the Ontario government also has a contaminated site on our first nation land. Ontario is in the process of trying to ascertain how big their site is and how they're going to approach it. The federal government—and we've been

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I wouldn't say that's true. We became aware of the contaminated sites through the process, and we understood that the governments would work with us to clean up these sites.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As far as I know, there has not yet been. I have some concerns about that community, primarily with the land. It's not that people drink or draw water from Lake Nipissing. We do have more children who require extensive special education services. I'm wondering if this is because

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There weren't a lot of challenges. Yes, there was a big concern from those band members who married non-first nations people, but our law says that the house belongs to the children. So whoever is going to raise those children has the right to occupy that house and that propert

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What needs to be taken into account is the amount of fuel we expend just getting to and from our communities, depreciation on our equipment, opportunities to replace that equipment, and just adding in a distance factor, because our communities are distant. That's why I referred t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Definitely, there has to be more money. We're borrowing from Peter to pay Paul within our administration. We know we need those extra positions.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The inner workings? I'm sorry...?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a toughie.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay, yes. Since we've taken over land management, we do, through a process, develop bylaws, and those bylaws are put out for public consultation. For instance, we have bylaws for grants of entitlement. We have an ATV, all terrain vehicle, bylaw; we don't want our swamps and tho

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I do. On those lands that we're waiting to get back...we do have some of our people leasing land from us. In those instances, we don't charge them a lease; we give them a land permit. In a way of helping our local economy develop, we forego any leasing charges. Now, for the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, definitely. We're always open for business, for new businesses.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Certainly under land management we're able to expedite.... When we grant for residential purposes, we can do that within a day or two, whereas before, with Indian Affairs, it would take us a year or two to finally get that approval. We're able to now.... What am I trying to say?