Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Good morning. Ublaahatkut. Ma'na. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for this opportunity to appear before you on behalf of the Nunavut Impact Review Board. My name is Elizabeth Copland. I am the chairperson of the Nunavut Impact Review Board and with me

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Probably, broadly speaking, it would support.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it would give more teeth, if you will, to our decisions—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  How do I say it...? In what terms and conditions we give to the company, it would have more legal...or more grounds or more teeth in our decisions.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  if I understood your question, you mean if a project is proposed in an area and the people do not agree. Is that what you're asking?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's pretty much a split a lot of times. There are people who are in favour of development and others who are not in favour. Ryan, perhaps you can comment.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll speak a bit to that. The changes on the Mary River project that we hear about are changes from the hearing itself, the first hearing, and because of the downsizing, we're going to have to review what changes they are bringing to the board. Ryan, do you have anything more on

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It has always been an ongoing problem with Nunavut as well, but Ryan has more experience on the funding part of this, so I'm going to ask him if he can answer.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm going to ask Mr. Barry to reply.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Ublaahatsiatkut. Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity to appear before you on behalf of the Nunavut Impact Review Board. My name is Elizabeth Copland. I am the chairperson. With me today is Ryan Barry. He is our executive director. We also have our legal co