Government Operations committee  No, I have no further comments.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. You can look at someone like Ellis Ross, who's a Liberal in British Columbia and chief of the Haisla, and the economic benefit they are not going to receive as a result of their projects not moving forward when it comes to LNG. Yes, we have to find a path forward. It

Government Operations committee  It's in private businesses.

Government Operations committee  Why? Well—

Government Operations committee  Well, that's how we work. That's how we operate. We see that there's an opportunity to work with indigenous businesses to help them grow. Why it's not done under PSAB, I guess would be a question for those who are more directly involved in that. For us, we saw that there was an

Government Operations committee  That's a very good question. I don't know that I have the best answer for it. From the procurement perspective, I think any time it's removed.... In terms of duty to consult in honour of the crown, it's a good thing. Whether it should be in the mainstream is a different questi

Government Operations committee  With us, as for growing those companies, one thing we see is really about sustainable businesses. Some of the communities we work with are most successful because the businesses are often owned by the band itself, by the community. They employ a number of people. One employs 80 p

Government Operations committee  Right. Exactly.

Government Operations committee  I just want to say that in the private sector, of course we don't have any real direct involvement with PSAB, but where we do have large projects.... I mentioned the logging example earlier, and helping to grow that business. One of the things we did was that after we set out the

Government Operations committee  I'd like to add that one of the communities we work with is working to develop a modern treaty. They don't currently have one, but they also happen to be the most successful out of all of the groups. They have 80% employment, while one of them has 67% unemployment. I guess the le

Government Operations committee  I think there are a couple of reasons. One goes back to that connection of the region with the communities. We already are working with those communities from a consultation perspective. That would be another reason that we've already developed those relationships. As we're de

Government Operations committee  Of course I can't speak on their behalf, but my understanding is that there has not been a lot of significant procurement for them when it comes to those programs. For us, and for that region, it really is about oil and gas development. I think that probably the one community th

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  From a corporate perspective and from striving to differentiate ourselves by working with all of our communities, I'd say there has to be a degree of flexibility in that, because it's going to be dependent on activity levels. You're going to have commodity prices in there. If you

Government Operations committee  Good morning. Thank you very much for inviting us to participate today. I'm going to come at it from a different perspective. Seven Generations is an oil and gas and energy company. We produce natural gas with associated condensate. Our name comes from the law of the Iroquois