Finance committee  What we're talking about is own-source revenues. We're talking about clawbacks. First nation governments want to get into business—you heard this from the other chiefs—and we want to be a part of the economy in the Yukon. For first nation governments, the clawbacks from own-sou

Finance committee  It's 50¢ on the dollar.

Finance committee  I think it just starts at ground zero.

Finance committee  There's a small threshold, she says.

Finance committee  When we're talking governance, I'm speaking from the experience of a small first nation that has 250 members. Our community, the Kluane First Nation, is the only game in town, if you want to call it that. I have capacity issues that we have to deal with. We have an annual budg

Finance committee  Quite often the funding set aside for indigenous governments is not available to modern treaty holders. KFN sees this with budget 2017-18 and the allocations for housing and infrastructure that we don't have access to. We continually go to the Assembly of First Nations and advoca

Finance committee  With regard to modern treaty holders, we have an agreement with government that sets out our funding arrangement already. That has a different recognition in the Government of Canada. We have a land claim agreement. We have a self-government agreement, which is different from fir

Finance committee  No, it hasn't, as far as we know.

Finance committee  Good morning. Dännch'e? Shäw nithän. Welcome to the Yukon. I want to thank you guys for inviting me to speak to you today. My name is Robert Dickson. I'm the elected chief of Kluane First Nation, which is located about two and a half hours west of Whitehorse. Our community has