Fisheries committee  In another hat I wear, as the emergency management adviser to the First Nations Leadership Council, I'm invited to senior meetings, including the B.C.-federal committee on this, which has 10 federal ministers and seven provincial ministers. In participating in the meeting and rea

Fisheries committee  Thank you for that, Ms. Barron. Here's what we're trying to do here locally with our 31 communities. We have organizations such as Watershed Watch, West Coast Environmental Law, the Farmland Advantage crew, Kerr Wood Leidal, Ebbwater, the UBC school of architecture and landscape

Fisheries committee  There's a really deep misunderstanding of the application of the declaration, whether it be with the federal government or the provincial government. Too often, we hear the UNDRIP, DRIPA or UNDRIPA. I'd like to focus on those three key articles—19, 29 and 32—because then we can

Fisheries committee  In my opinion, Ms. May, nobody was equipped to respond effectively to the flood event. The challenge is that the Canada Energy Regulator didn't play much of a role in the Trans Mountain activities, because the company, on its own, decided to stop the flow of oil. It wasn't manda

Fisheries committee  In another hat, I [Technical difficulty—Editor] first nations monitors inspecting with DFO's CER federal regulators. We have done over 100 co-inspections with the CER and may have done 20 with DFO. During the flood event, DFO was invisible. There was nobody out in the field wha

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. As mentioned, I'm Tyrone McNeil from the Stó:lo Tribal Council, and I'm also speaking to you as the chair of the Emergency Planning Secretariat here in the Upper Fraser Valley but covering all 31 mainland coast villages, from Yale