Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can't say, not having seen the questions.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If it would be useful, it wasn't prepared as a brief, but my speaking notes had a fair amount of detail on some of the areas that were being questioned. They could be—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are two sides to this. The other problem for a lot of first nations that have difficulty, for example, with the designation process, or whatever they had to do in a pre-reserve designation to accept the third party...they won't select land with those interests on it because

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure what you're looking for here, but very early on, for example, in the TLE process in Saskatchewan, when the first urban reserves got created and the economic benefits to both communities became evident, there was some reticence at the beginning, and, let's face it, th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, people like that. At one point, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities had a committee that we worked through that was passing that good information around. Unfortunately, that doesn't exist. The same thing happened to a number of first nations and to the provincial a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, with some of the participating first nations. I've been waiting for something to come out on it publicly, and it seems to come out by the participating first nations. They're putting it up on their own websites. I have a website reference.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's on Chief John Thunder's website, if you already know it. If you don't, then I'll give you the reference.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Not that I'm aware of. The first nations have to pass land codes, and then they're applying the laws in whatever way they see fit. I haven't assessed what it is they're doing with their own codes and stuff. That's up to them. A key component of this is that they can't exercise

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, without a legislative change—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —but that would just legalize a regulatory gap.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure it's safe to say there's an adequate assessment done ahead of time. I haven't looked at that in detail. The first nations got the assurance legally. It's in the act. The liability is federal.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  How much of the assessment that needs to be done is done before the transition as opposed to after, I'm not sure.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and there are other first nations that aren't worried about the historical liability but are worried about the future liability, because the contemplation they have for the land they want to use the FNLMA for is environmentally sensitive, and they know they're not going to h

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's not just the past; it's the future.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I guess in simple terms it's just the good neighbour approach. You have issues of land use and bylaw harmonization and those kinds of issues. The difficulty everybody is in is that the first nations don't actually have the authority to do it. I did a search on all of the attem