Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Go ahead, Jim.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. You're right. This fiscal policy is being imposed. We have not accepted it because of the language in our agreement. How is it going to affect us if it goes forward? We will have no choice but to defend our agreements. That means going back to court,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the resource development royalties are identified in our agreements. The Council of Yukon First Nations has the umbrella agreement. It has established the legislative processes and boards and committees to work with both governments. We really are making great strides to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon. I'm Ruth Massie, the Grand Chief of the Council for Yukon First Nations, and I work for nine self-governing first nations within our organization. Thank you, committee members, for the invitation to speak to you today about our treaties and the challenges we hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think, right now with the assessments, it's already happening. We have a lot of proposed projects on the go and industry has come to the first nations to make sure that they are complying with our agreements. When the board gets together, the independent board, we do have repre

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, they are.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it's when binding policy and direction is coming from the minister that's driving the agenda. They can oversee the board, and that's a big fear for us. We don't have that interference now, and that political interference is potentially there with these amendments going th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll let our technician answer that question as well.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would like our technical adviser to answer that question, but quickly, no, that hasn't been our experience. I'll hand this over to Mr. Leas.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, Chair, I was a little bit surprised to hear that, but I welcomed hearing that. We haven't had that discussion. The premier has met with our leadership before when we have had our leadership.... That is one road that we have encouraged him to go down, to start the reconcilia

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When we went through the five-year review, there were 76 recommendations, and 72 of them ended up in the bill. Most of them are administrative. We did agree with that. Where are the four that didn't come to agreement? We ended up with four proposed amendments that we didn't even

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it was a statement rather than an amendment.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Out of the 76 amendments, there were 72, but when it came to addressing this one, it was a statement. I don't think it came across as one of the amendments. I believe there were four amendments outstanding at the end of that five-year review, which took about five years to begi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. My name is Ruth Massie. I'm the grand chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations. Thank you for the opportunity to present our views on Bill S-6 to the standing committee, and thank you for your willingness to travel to Yukon to hear all of us. All Yukoners and i