Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I said earlier, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, which we have to work with, required.... We consulted with the following Treaty 6 nations: the Samson Cree Nation, the Louis Bull nation, Montana First Nation and the Ermineskin Cree Nation. We also consulted with, from T

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I said, there were seven projects that were identified in the overall drainage study that was done, and they span across the region from Lethbridge all the way to Medicine Hat. This project is the one that's closest, as I said, to a natural river course, which is the Oldman Ri

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. The St. Mary River main canal kind of acts as a dam through southern Alberta. It blocks somewhat the natural flows of water back to the river basin. By doing this project, in flood years we're returning water back to the natural river basin that is held up as a result of the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. As I mentioned earlier, there are lots of potatoes grown in this area, and sugar beets, seed canola, timothy and all those kinds of high-value crops. A potato crop or a sugar beet crop, for example, doesn't take long to die or to become unmarketable when it's under water.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct. Taber has the only beet sugar refining plant left in all of Canada. The other growing areas have all shut down over the years. We produce between 8% and 10% of the Canadian sugar market demands, and most of it is marketed here in western Canada. Some of it gets do

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You bet. Thank you, MP Shields.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, that's correct, Martin.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As a result of the flooding in 2010 and 2011, the council—I wasn't on council at the time—brought together the Municipal District of Taber and the counties of Lethbridge, Warner, Forty Mile and Cypress, because we were all affected one way or the other by this overland flooding.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Honourable chairman and members of the committee, as we begin today, I would like to acknowledge that the land the MD of Taber is on and the lands in the projects I'm going to describe today are Treaty 7 lands. I acknowledge those whose ancestors walked and lived on this land. W