Environment committee  No, the health outcomes are much better than they were 10 or 20 years ago.

Environment committee  No, it will hold it back. It talks in generalities. Some of the clauses, especially 3(1) around a national strategy where Canada is expected “to advance environmental justice and to assess, prevent and address environmental racism” leave the door wide open for third party group

Environment committee  No, I haven't.

Environment committee  No, I'm not, but I do know that no water aquifers have been damaged in the northeast of B.C.

Environment committee  I have experience with industrial development. The problem with this is that you're trying to find the smoking gun. We tried to go down that road in terms of industrial health and it was hard. We spent millions of dollars in court and we couldn't prove it. There was one industr

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  No, I don't. I see that as a wide open, general bill that can be interpreted many different ways. The worst part of it is that first nations will be stuck in poverty and stuck in the middle. They will not have a chance to uplift themselves, which is what independence really means

Environment committee  I'll give you a direct example. There's a big argument about old-growth forestry in B.C. right now. The B.C. government took back some of the volume that was being cut, but at the same time they transferred a lot of that volume for old-growth logging over to first nations. That'

Environment committee  In 2004, it was my band that started exploring LNG exports to the world, and it took seven years for the provincial government to agree with us. We imposed LNG exports on B.C. and Canada. We forced the Canadian government to understand this, in terms of imposing duties on goods c

Environment committee  Thank you. I know this is subjective in terms of where you're situated in Canada. We're situated in B.C. and first nations over here are tired of policies or agendas that are used by third parties, with first nations stuck in the middle. We're talking about this happening all ov

Industry committee  Yes, that's all out there. By the way, I was never a fan of self-governance for first nations. I was a fan of basically being involved in the economy. My band is not suffering under the Indian Act anymore. Back in 2003, we were. We have enough resources now, within the current s

Industry committee  That's no problem.

Industry committee  Without a doubt. They all signed on, including first nations along the tanker route. They signed on. They did it for the benefit that we're all enjoying right now as we speak—for the last five years.

Industry committee  No, not even close. In fact, they blockaded the B.C. legislature, and I was told I should support aboriginal rights and title by a protester. I had spent the better part of 15 years doing exactly that to get my people to a better place, along with 17 other first nations along the