Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, in conclusion, we commend the presentation to your analysts and the clerk to form part of the record, and we appreciate the opportunity to be here to speak from our perspective on small craft harbours. Nakurmiik. Thank you.

Fisheries committee  The wisdom of Solomon is required. There's no doubt about that.

Fisheries committee  Investments should be made where investments are required. I have to say that there has often been a lag in terms of investments in northern and indigenous communities, and that is one of the reasons I'm saying that the committee should recommend to the Department of Fisheries

Fisheries committee  Could you clarify the question a little bit?

Fisheries committee  I suppose in some sense it gets back to what sustainability means. Does sustainability mean that you have enough revenue coming in to make sure that everything's maintained and operated? Is that the only model of sustainability that one has? Some would say that's a financial mod

Fisheries committee  If you get into the fact that this is about healthy communities, healthy resource development, public safety—all of these values—and that's brought into the model of sustainability, I think you're going to arrive at a different conclusion: that it is sustainable for the Governmen

Fisheries committee  Certainly, they could form part of the conversation that we would have with the Government of Canada—and, in some instances, with the government of a particular province or territory—about how self-government manifests itself. Do we, as an indigenous organization, want to have a

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Ms. Jones. I just want to give a shout-out to our MP for the fine work that she has been doing with us and for us as well. We thank you for those particular questions. There has to be a different funding model and there must be a different approach, I think, to how

Fisheries committee  I think saying to the committee to make a recommendation around looking at investments through a northern and indigenous lens would be a step. Of course, doing that through reconciliation and in partnership and collaboration with indigenous governments is also an important consid

Fisheries committee  No, we haven't. Not yet.

Fisheries committee  Yes. We've advocated as well that investments may be made or the funding model by small craft harbours should look at northern and indigenous communities through that particular lens. I think there are peculiarities, specifics, historical contexts that are important for small cr

Fisheries committee  Yes, you could say that. The other big one is subsistence fisheries, which we participate in. But outside of subsistence fisheries and commercial fisheries, there's not a lot of other activity. There are not a lot of, say, cargo ships coming in and using small craft harbours. Th

Fisheries committee  Primarily in Labrador it's crab and shrimp. Now cod is starting to rebuild. Other than that, it's herring, capelin, some of the species you would generally associate with Labrador. Crab and shrimp are by far the most.

Fisheries committee  All of those things. It would be very harbour-specific, obviously. It would be driven by need and by what the industry requires in a particular harbour. Again, this is important. Small craft harbours does not have a long history in Labrador. In fact, some of the harbours that we

Fisheries committee  Again, it varies by harbour. On the north coast, they may want upgrades to a harbour, in terms of lifting it up, because the tides are having such an impact. If you're in a place like Cartwright, where you've seen some investments, they're also looking for launch pads and things