Finance committee  Someone mentioned this morning—I think it was Gary Vivian—that ultimately the land claim agreements need to be settled. To us, that's the big thing, and I'll speak briefly to it. In the early 1970s, we took Canada to court on the question of land ownership, which includes the r

Finance committee  Thank you. Thank you for that information about the discussion that will take place in a couple of weeks. You hit the nail on the head. As treaty Indians in the north, the difficulty is that we're treated differently than the people in the south. It's primarily because, for mos

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you for the invitation to attend the proceedings of the standing committee. I'm the national chief for the Dene Nation, but also the Assembly of First Nations' regional chief for the Northwest Territories, so I have a number of hats that I have to wear. Act