Environment committee  The spirit of the bill I think moves in the right direction. At least for the game council, the manner in which the government went about consulting and working with the land claim groups, striking the expert panel, and building an understanding of what they were trying to do sou

Environment committee  Thank you. Understand that the deep offshore drilling proposal was a very massive review to take on. Much as Kate mentioned, there was a lot of work done prior to the proposal even coming forward, not only from governments but also from industry. Industry was up in the ISR. They

Environment committee  This is Jen Lam speaking. It's already been shown in the past reviews that have been done in this area that the inclusion of Inuvialuit knowledge in the process has created a great amount of buy-in in the process itself. Our past review processes have included a lot of input fr

Environment committee  I think under the new proposed act there is some language that provides some clarity. However, I don't think it is strong enough to be able to provide the certainty that the Inuvialuit are requesting.

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to present. Thank you to the committee members. My name is Jen Lam, as Kate mentioned, and I will be making remarks on behalf of the Inuvialuit Game Council. As Kate mentioned, the IFA sets out a robust and inclusive impact assessmen