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Environment committee Not with my community, I don't think, but maybe with some other communities, because we can see through their facade.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee No. I wish Chief Kocsis from Hornepayne were here, because they tried to be involved with the process there, in Hornepayne, and they were shut out of meetings. A lot of those meetings basically talked about the benefits of nuclear power and said nothing about any of the negativ
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee The Hornepayne First Nation people were not even allowed in the room in those meetings.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee I believe so. In regard to the treaties and the people who signed on to treaties, I believe they have. With us, we are unceded territory. We have an aboriginal title claim in place, and I believe they understood that as well when they were talking to us, and that we weren't goin
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee Meegwetch.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee When the NWMO was doing consultations several years ago, we had huge demonstrations out on Highway 17 at White River. We had a huge demonstration out in Hornepayne. We had huge demonstrations at the Nipigon River Bridge. The first nations and our community members were there as w
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee No, I don't think so. I think they understood that we, at least at Biigtigong, were not going to do it. We also didn't accept any of their money. We told them—I'm not going to say anything about whether we told them about it—that we didn't want their money, because we looked at t
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee I didn't understand the question.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee The translation system is not working. Oh, there it is.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee Oh, yes, the resolutions dealt with a variety of issues. There was the production and the research around SMRs, the handling of waste, and also the production of nuclear waste through nuclear power. When you look at those three resolutions, you see that they're asking to stop al
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee Yes, I just turned it on.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee The resolution is basically to direct our leadership at the Nishnawbe Aski nation, at the Chiefs of Ontario and at the Assembly of First Nations to deal with those issues with the federal and provincial governments. That is what those resolutions do. It gives them the authority t
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee At the Assembly of First Nations, nationally there are 600 first nations. Not all of them are on board with this issue. There are some that oppose, of course, and some abstain. At the Ontario level, I believe there are a little over 37 first nations that have signed on to those
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee I've answered that same question to the NWMO. Stop making it, and then we'll talk about how we can store it.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano
Environment committee I'm saying you stop making it, and we'll talk about how we can store it.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano