Environment committee  We started on St. Anns Bank in 2007, as we said in our brief, with a number of different meetings with a number of different stakeholders and rights holders, and developed a plan for it. It was submitted to Ottawa. For four years now we have not known where it sits. We know it si

Environment committee  Yes, I mean the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. In that time frame, many people.... We're on the fisheries round tables and marine protected area tables with fisheries users and oil and gas users and everybody else. We've seen a stepping back from wanting to be involved in mar

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes, I can definitely make a submission.

Environment committee  The question was raised about incentives for people to be involved in conservation and sustainable use. I think the biggest incentive for Canadians and aboriginal peoples right now is political leadership, strong political leadership, to constantly be saying, “Yes, we want to dev

Environment committee  The identification of critical habitat under the Species at Risk Act is a very cumbersome and hard process for government to get their minds around. It's easy to identify it in a park, a wildlife habitat, on DND land, or on something that's owned by the federal government. But I'

Environment committee  In the east we have 18 pre-Confederation treaties of peace, friendship, and trade, not land claims or land succession treaties. I understand Mr. Sopuck's concern about private property, but in the east those lands are still Mi'kmaq lands, Maliseet lands, Passamaquoddy lands. Th

Environment committee  We will lose our glorious past. In the 1960s and 1970s, we had people such as Maurice Strong; we had Jim MacNeill and others—Canadian ministers and diplomats and advisers—promoting and indeed starting the international movement on biodiversity and environment. Pulling out of co

Environment committee  That is correct.

Environment committee  Always having an invitation. Always having an open forum. To present a native council or a band council with a document that is done from a science perspective and then say do you agree or disagree with it, totally misses the point. They have to sit across the table or next to ea

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, if you do read our submission, it does question the level of science we have in Canada. I'm sure everybody here is familiar with protests that were done by scientists about the slashing and burning of jobs and budgets for science, and the require

Environment committee  It comes back to respect, discourse, and dialogue. I think that's what definitely was happening in the Okanagan Valley. Once you have people speaking to each other, then you learn the traditional knowledge. It's impossible to understand one knowledge system when you're only train

Environment committee  I have three recommendations, which I'll read very quickly. Canada must recognize that conservation and sustainable use is a single term, and that it must be our number one goal and public policy. Canada must support the reality that Canadians are striving for sustainable devel

Environment committee  Good morning, and thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, committee members, for inviting the Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council to speak on the very important matter of complementing and enhancing habitat conservation in Canada through a national conservation plan. Mr. Chair, pleas