Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll summarize by paraphrasing that question. If we have all these instruments of recognition and principles to implement treaties, why are they not being implemented? What is the problem? What's wrong? There are a number of contradictions and inconsistencies in what the governm

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay, thank you. It's a very important question because colonial governments have the ability to set out legislation and regulate that legislation with policies. These policies are really at the whim of the government of the day. We see so much opportunity lost because governmen

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As the regional chief, I'm not a specific claims technical person. However, I do know enough from what are brought forward as political assertions in our assemblies, as well as from my own first nation. I'll speak for my own first nation, and we will provide supplemental informat

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I know one of the things they've removed from part of the process, and it may be incorrect, are land cautions. At one point in time, they would put out a land caution to any developers. There was formal notification of contested lands. I think that those instruments need to be pu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We signed an agreement on the political accord with the Ontario government. That's what you're referring to, I understand.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That, I can tell you, has seen some gain and benefit, and I would have to give credit to the current Wynne government. There are a number of open doors now. For example, the first TLE claim was awarded under the Ontario government, and that says a lot about the political relation