Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the territory, actually, there's the JBCCS, the James Bay Cree Communications Society. It's a regional radio broadcasting outfit that's based out of Mistassini but has an antenna that reaches all communities.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They're online as well.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the purpose of the regional government, when we have sessions, they send over a tech, and the tech comes in and plugs into the board. I'm using words that I'm not sure what they mean.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They plug into the board, and it broadcasts to the JBCCS airwaves in Cree because JBCCS, James Bay Cree Communication Society, is exclusively Cree radio.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When they come into either the Cree Nation Government council meetings or the regional government council meetings, they plug in. They plug into the interpreter's booth, actually, the interpreter's line. That's what they're broadcasting out to the communities, because radio is th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I wish I could take the credit for JBCCS, but I can't. The regional government's guidelines and its framework and its agreement are built so that we have to serve in Cree. We have the technology. We're up in James Bay. Sometimes there's no road. Sometimes there's no Wi-Fi—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —but we bring it up there. We have it. ECN is the Eeyou Communications Network. It's a fibre-optic company. It's a Cree company, Cree-owned. We call ECN before heading to a community where we don't have Wi-Fi. We say, “Hi, ECN. Can you give us a line, please? We're going to be th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a pleasure. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The technicians arrive the evening before the proceedings begin. This way they're able to set up and iron out any kinks, if there are any.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's an honour to be here.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was just reading an article, actually, before we came in. When we began our sessions of the regional government in the north, a local reporter came to watch a session. In his opinion, Chibougamau felt like the United Nations. That's exactly what it looks like. It's 22 people

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's everything. It's a road show. We have roadies.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The agreement that provides for the three languages was signed in 2012. To be honest, it was a bit of trial and error in the beginning. At first, we were renting everything, so we had providers bringing in the equipment. It didn't take very long for us to realize that it would be