Natural Resources committee  What every nation that I'm aware of wants to do is to have a comprehensive base of indigenous knowledge in a modern day format with proper mapping and GIS layers that's dynamic and can model vegetative cover and different types of operations, industrial, traditional—you name it.

Natural Resources committee  The precautionary principle would probably be the number one principle that indigenous nations on the land would move to. I think some of the science is coming out with regard to a more naturalistic and indigenous forest management lens on that land base. When you're talking abou

Natural Resources committee  There have been a number of trade deals that we have negotiated. There are existing trade missions and various provincial initiatives that the federal government also supports through the CFS. From the indigenous forestry perspective, the indigenous forestry sector hasn't been i

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, committee members and colleagues. I'd like to thank the committee for the invitation to contribute to the study under way. My name is Bradley Young. I am the executive director of the National Aboriginal Forestry Association. I'm also a citizen of the Opas

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Sauvé.

Natural Resources committee  That's a good question. Thank you for the question, Mr. Serré. I'll answer it completely. I'll start with the political. My grandfather, John Young, was a proud member of the Progressive Conservative Party in Manitoba and federally his whole life. My father, my uncles and my aun

Natural Resources committee  I'm indigenous, sir.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  Sir, you have me at a bit of a disadvantage because I don't have that report in front of me, but I get the point that you can read some of the statistics in different ways. You get an appreciation that what's on paper is quite different from what the situation in the forest actua

Natural Resources committee  I'd say we work very well together, and sometimes not at all. But I think there's a reflection now that people, at a minimum, have to talk at all levels of government. It doesn't matter what kind of political stripe you come from, because the insects and the ecological energetic

Natural Resources committee  I think the innovation focus is great in this government. Indigenous groups are ready for more innovation supports. I think it has to be improved regionally, because as we all know, the business environment of each indigenous region and each provincial region in Canada varies acc

Natural Resources committee  I'll put it up on the screen, and my apologies to the committee members who don't understand English.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The numbers are shown on the screen. Offhand, there are about 69 million cubic metres of commercial tenure in B.C. First nations have about eight million cubic metres of that, or 11%, a national best. As B.C.'s provincial forest is more or less equal to all the other provinc

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Thank you for that, Mr. Hehr. It's man îcosak. I really appreciate the attempt at our language. It shows great respect for this experiment we call Canada. So the man îcosak and the different forcings that we've noticed.... We have stories of different insect families overw

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Cannings. You have some of the jagged outcomes of colonization and the current administrative structures there, but I'm not going to critique that. What I'm going to say is that British Columbians are slowly figuring it out. You have eight milli