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  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  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  What was the biggest challenge of land management?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's getting our bylaws in order and getting our environmental law developed. Then, of course, it's dealing with these contaminated sites. It has been a very favourable arrangement for us at Nipissing First Nation. There are so many positive things to say about us as a people a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It all depends. Hopefully, they would have made a will. In that will, or the attachment to that will, it should state that should one or the other pass away—especially in the case of the non-native person—they would have the right to live in that house and on that land until they

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It would also be for the non-native person.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It would be for either person, but it has to be stated in the will.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd like to believe that our young people have values. If they were raised in that home and they were respectful of their father or their mother, they would abide and say, “Okay, you stay there as long as you want.” That's all I understand it to be.

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  First I want to acknowledge the two gentlemen you mentioned. I have the utmost respect for Angus Toulouse and Chief Whiteduck. We work together closely with them. No, we've not been asked about how to speed up the ATR process. It is frustrating and it is arduous. There has to be