Environment committee  Here's my observation. At this time in Canada and in British Columbia, often aboriginal people are cast in the role of folks adamantly opposed all the time to development. As we know, what precedes development is investment. We know that Canada is a resource rich nation and that

Environment committee  Yes, that's close. It's halfway there. I accused them of red-washing their particular agendas and goals. All I meant by it is that in a sense they slip their own agendas, as it were, through customs, take their agendas to first nations, and try to fly their particular agendas und

Environment committee  That goes to the points that our legal counsel, Tim, mentioned earlier, that we want to see this succeed. We want to see there be a lot of sensitivity on the part of this committee to some of what Mr. Dickson had to say, that we don't construct legislation that precludes the firs

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Madam Chair, I'll take off my hat as co-chair for the indigenous advisory committee, because I think you're asking me to put on my chief's hat.

Environment committee  Yes. In my opinion, if Kinder Morgan TMX doesn't proceed, hundreds of millions of dollars will be forgone for first nations all the way along the pipeline route. Why I say this is that, taking my own community as an example, we negotiated really hard. It was really my young cou

Environment committee  Just two minutes.

Environment committee  Yes, that's fine.

Environment committee  First, the committee's role is not about whether the pipelines should be there or not. Rather, it relates to making them and the marine shipping as safe as possible if they are going to be there. That is an objective everyone can agree upon. It is the kind of topic where there is

Environment committee  Madam Chair and honourable members, I'm Chief Ernie Crey. I'm the Chief of the Cheam First Nation in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, but I appear before you today as the indigenous co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committee for the Trans Mountain Pipeline