Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I can hear it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The three abandoned sites were very small. I think one was probably about 65 feet deep. The largest I think was 300 and required a concrete cap. The other two were basically backfilled. No, we did not see any benefits from those sites due to the nature.... It was something that w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the issues is that we are in negotiations in two other areas, what we call the ILA highway agreement and also our flooded lands. As I said earlier in my presentation, we've always used the four processes that we do have in order to augment each other and not fight each ot

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would say the biggest thing for us is that we see a future, a future that we control, and one that is based on our timelines, as we move along. Decisions are going to be made by the community. Unfortunately, in all honesty, we are actually legally into it for, what, three month

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think one is the forestry side of things. I think the other aspect is going to be the land leasing. We're well aware of what's going on across the country with other first nations. That seems to be the way to go. With 23 inland lakes, the possibilities are there and are endless

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We would have to see that order paper.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Who doesn't? The department doesn't?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, maybe the—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Excuse me, maybe it was just the terminology you used, but we had thorough consultation and input in regard to a recall of amendment 5, and basically that sounds like everything you're talking about. Mississauga First Nation is actually now probably ready to proceed to step three

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If there's legislation and there are timelines that go with that legislation, I would be all for it. We've discussed doing timelines in the settlement agreement. We've always gotten resistance—no, they can't commit to that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That basically is it, in a nutshell. We've asked for a commitment. We were looking at that in the two other negotiations we're into. We want some type of commitment from the department that, yes, these are the timelines they can live up to, because we realize that for our lands,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it would. Because I can tell you, I know two corporations that are not happy with the process or with what they're being fed now by the department.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Unfortunately, no, we haven't. Usually a lot of that we leave to, I would say, our colleagues, the Lands Advisory Board, to advise us on those issues. We are aware of the new funding increases we received, and we're more than grateful for that, because we knew the dollars we were

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In all honesty, I can't speak for the department. I've seen a number of issues, or, to me, excuses on delays, such as changes in the formatting of OICs, orders in council, and so on and so forth. These lands have been studied to death in regard to title and environment. There h

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For us, we've had basically no encumbrances. In the land claim consultation process there was a lot of uproar and so on, but I think a lot of that was dealt with through amendments or through the negotiations. We provided assurances for a lot of the hunters, the cottagers, and so