Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it's starting to be implemented. In the NEQA it said that Naskapis shall be trained and hired as wildlife protection officers. This was 1978. It was implemented with the Crees and the Inuit, and we've been requesting that for years and years. In 2005-06 we started to reque

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's one of the big reasons we can think of. But we're not in the heads of the different deputy ministers and people in the departments who are making those decisions. Maybe over time we have not been aggressive enough.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One thing is that with all those public services provided through the NEQA, for each of our services, we are in contact with a different department—education department, health department, you name it. The Naskapis Nation is a small nation. Its population is around 1,300. We don'

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The NEQA created the Naskapi school, which is funded 75% by Canada and 25% by Quebec. Every three years we have a negotiation with Quebec and Canada to determine our three-year funding budget. I would say that it is going well at the elementary and secondary levels. As I said, we

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have a big document I will send you that explains some stuff. Because of the short period here, I will go over it more in summary. Many will tell you that where the NEQA is providing services, it is going well, but a lot of commitments in the NEQA are not well implemented or