Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry to say we didn't.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm concerned about suffering no matter what happens, because if the treaties aren't respected and we go to court, we suffer. If some of these changes, and perhaps more changes to YESAB, aren't made, we also suffer. I don't know what I would recommend except to say that I woul

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I hope so. I asked people to continue talking. It's always good to talk instead of going to war. Why not talk right up until the last minute, if we can? I don't know enough about how this all works with legislation, how proper consultation works, and how it would have to be don

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are a couple of things. First, we have to admit that all people can make mistakes, so people in a designated office can make mistakes too. There has to some way for people, maybe at the main YESAB board in Whitehorse, to be able to look at a designated office decision and s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I shall try. Absolutely, YESAB is the first part. Then there's the decision document from the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. Then there's the water board. From our perspective, YESAB is the one that potentially takes the longest and can be the most difficult path to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, part of the problem we're facing is that some designated offices don't understand as well as others do the regulations that regulate placer mining. Some designated offices therefore don't understand the regulations we've been operating under in the past. They might recommen

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. The placer industry, itself, as I mentioned earlier, is very different from other industries up here or in different areas of the mining field, as we don't use chemicals or don't create acid rock drainage or anything like that. Most of the people live on the land. They are

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. What she found was that, in many respects, the post-mined areas, the areas after mining, were more productive, with more biological diversity than the pre-mined areas. That's not to say that pre-mined areas aren't valuable too, or that unmined areas aren't valuable too. The

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I thought that's what this was about. I could be mistaken, but I thought this was about the delegation of direction—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure I understand your question 100%, but whether I do or not, I have a lot of comments. Going back to the local designated offices, I believe someone needs to be able to give them direction. Right now, as a politician, you're given direction every four years. As a board

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Of course.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  How does it play out in any industry when someone shows up and does things that aren't good for the environment, the industry, or society in general? Hopefully they get hauled away to jail at some point if they're bad enough, right?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't think the assessors really take into account whether someone is new or not.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Everybody is treated the same, of course, and that's only fair and right.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's true. The questioning is consistent, but none of the questions are really designed, I think, to sort out a bad apple, or someone new from someone old.