Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're at 41 as of today. Two years ago, we were at 11, so we've grown quite rapidly.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have three sub-regions. We have the central interior, the northwest, and the northeast.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. It's mostly up in the northern area, but we do have a couple of others that are in different areas.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, not to that magnitude. We do have an environmental assessment stewardship program that looks at land use planning and we have developed a tool kit that allows the land use planning to be part of the process if we're going to have major program development in a certain area, b

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've heard it a couple of times around the table today: consent and collaboration, as well as communication. If we all work together to support each other in some of the articles, it will be a success. It's a good foundation for our people. What we need to do now is build on it,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Currently, we're in the feasibility study stage for one of the major projects, a multi-million dollar project that we want to see happen within my territory as well three other first nations in the area. The success story there is that four first nations are getting together to a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. As everything is unfolding, it just fit into what we were doing back home. Without actually knowing that we were using UNDRIP to get the work done, we were doing it already. It came to us as just a blessing—let's say that—because some of the work we do is directly imp

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have fears in our communities anyway. Trust is a big issue because of all the things that have happened to our people historically: major projects in their territories, the inability to look at the environmental assessment process, the stewardship of the land. We had that fear

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. We're here in Ottawa now, and that's what we're doing: pounding the pavement to get in the door of government proponents. Back home we do the same, and we allow our community members access to the information that we gather. It has been instrumental in our accessing t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe we're heading to the implementation stage. We need to start looking at the implementation of all the new legislation that's at hand for our people back home. Again, being non-political in this arena, I believe it's up to our people back home to get the tools they need t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The major projects coalition is a non-political body that provides technical supports to our individual communities, who are 40-strong right now. I won't speak for any of those communities as vice-chair; I have to wear two hats here. What we do is provide the tools that are neces

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First of all, thank you, Madam Chair. I am Corrina Leween. I am the Chief of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation. Our territory is situated in a semi-remote location in the north-central interior of British Columbia. Since 2015, I have served as Vice-Chair of the First Nations Major Pr