Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I agree with Mark. Things are slowly moving to that. We're finding that the industry in the oil and gas sector definitely has the door wide open to that relationship building. We formalize it when we call it “consent”, but ultimately it's something th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We work with a special operating agency called Indian Oil and Gas Canada, and they collect the resources. Up to four years ago they were collecting over $500 million in royalties, and just this last quarter they've collected only $35 million out of all the producing nations in Ca

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely, it's definitely making it more difficult, for sure.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Traditionally when we produce oil and gas it's controlled by the federal government, and right now it seems we have one customer and that's the United States. The pipeline capacity we see that was supposed to go to foreign markets is not there with the legislation that's been put

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. The way we look at it is that obviously we want to see the United Nations declaration move ahead. From a human rights standpoint, you can see that in this country the indigenous people have confronted rights to certain issues and, nine times out of 10

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. They're definitely human rights. That was the intent of the document from the get-go.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. You can take this as far back as our treaty. When we look at our treaty and how we defined the land when we signed Treaty 6, we were told we got this much land, but then the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement came. It think it was in 1932. Hence, we lost our position, not

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to speak today. I am in the Treaty No. 7 territory. My name is Stephen Buffalo. I'm the president and CEO of the Indian Resource Council of Canada. Our organization represents over 130 first nations across Canada that