Environment committee  The accumulative impact, like assessing it from a whole system approach, is really key in looking at all of the toxins that are coming in from numerous industries.

Environment committee  To consult and engage is really just the surface. For us, it's really when to take a lead and make sure that it's taking an indigenous approach. For us, it's key in terms of having a high impact, and I think that's one of the missing ingredients for everything that we're doing in

Environment committee  I think that's key. Thank you for restating that question, because from a multi-generational approach, we realize that our responsibility is to make sure that the future generations begin to understand and embrace this way of being, so enforcing and impacting are, in our hearts a

Environment committee  Yes, for sure we have the same concerns. To us, it's really that the salmon people are our most sacred relatives, so to alter their natural way of being is no different from altering our way of being. We really try to promote and protect the natural environment and especially her

Environment committee  Thank you. For us, vulnerability is really critical. It's understanding that there's no separation between the land and the people. Initially, from the beginning of time, our people understood how to thrive and prosper, when there were no toxins and no man-made harms in the com

Environment committee  Through you, Mr. Chair—

Environment committee  —can the question be repeated? I didn't understand the question.

Environment committee  Thank you. Yes, from our perspective, it is really understanding and bringing our indigenous voice forward. That deeper understanding, that connectivity to the land, are really key in terms of understanding what these issues are for the land itself. That's where we've misstepped

Environment committee  Thank you. That's really exactly what's in our hearts and our minds—we don't have that deeper understanding. We don't know if it's airborne, if it's coming from the land, or if it's in the water. It's really true that it's impacting our health beyond a way that we can even ident

Environment committee  For us, without a doubt, what we mean about removing some of those false boundaries in those jurisdictional issues is that they're problematic. We have industry surrounding all of our communities, and what's been happening here in our communities is that there's been a siloed app

Environment committee  [Witness spoke in Hul'q'umin'um'] Hello. My name is Joan Brown, from Snuneymuxw First Nation. I'm very humbled and honoured to join this sacred circle to talk about such an important topic. Institutions claim that indigenous people are a vulnerable people, but we are not inher