Environment committee  I think it does. Maybe the reason they're not showing up in Montreal or these bigger cities is that the people there have more money.

Environment committee  You have a thing called “healthy worker syndrome”. If you have a good job and a good life, you could be exposed to these compounds and you may not show anything. However, if you don't have a good life and your society is stressed already, then you start to see these strange probl

Environment committee  I go back to your concept of evidence-based stuff. If a compound is going to be tested and you test it for the strongest people in your society, then you're not fulfilling the testing requirement you want it to be, namely, safe. You should be looking at those who are most vulnera

Environment committee  It's one of the things we would look at favourably because the people who are most vulnerable for us are women and children within our communities. So to have somebody looking—it's like a principle in science. When you're measuring something's effect, you don't pick the hardiest

Environment committee  I would say so.

Environment committee  Here's one of the problems. For us as native people, we've referred to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act as a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde act. On the one hand, you say, “Oh yes, we'd like to consult with you”, but then you give us no resources to do that. Then you end up wit

Environment committee  That's the reason I don't use the term “consultation” anymore, because it's more reasonable accommodation, you know?

Environment committee  You could take other environmental acts and look at them. For example, the Species at Risk Act is quite a nice act, and the reason is that native people helped to write it. It wasn't you over there and us over here. It was hands-on, with all six major organizations looking to pro

Environment committee  No, it's pronounced “Akwesasne”.

Environment committee  You got it. It means “where the partridge drums”.

Environment committee  Yes. It sounds goods. I'm really honoured to be here to talk to you today. I've come a number of different times to this type of forum to talk. I bring greetings from the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and from the Mohawk people of Akwesasne. We want you to know that we're still o

Environment committee  Thank you.