Environment committee  That is a very relevant question. First, we need to establish what we need, what we consider to be what's important for Canada with respect to encouraging investment from the outside. We need to set the stage to allow that investment to occur in which stability is, at the end of

Environment committee  I think regional assessments are very important and they should be included within the bill. I think it's incumbent upon Canada to ensure that the jurisdiction is not only related to reserve lands, but that you're also looking in terms of what's contained within Treaty No. 8, for

Environment committee  Yes, I think the resolution we are seeking is that there should be free, prior, and informed consent with respect to a project, and that first nations need to be involved right at the start, which includes capacity development in the communities. We need to have a really strong f

Environment committee  I think the act should be very specific and reference those points I made.

Environment committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the environment standing committee. It's a pleasure to speak to you today about Bill C-69. I am Jim Boucher, chief of the Fort McKay First Nation. With me are Dr. Alvaro Pinto and Tarlan Razzaghi, our legal counsel. They will help me a

Environment committee  We chose to take our drinking water out of the Ells River, which comes from the Birch Mountains and flows into the Athabasca River. The municipality also operates the water treatment plant by virtue of an agreement we struck with them a number of years ago, and it's a requirement

Environment committee  I presume you're talking about the IFN stream flow needs in respect to this question. We were engaged in early 2005, I believe—I have some correspondence regarding this—when the decision was made at the Energy Resource Conservation Board level with respect to an application by Sh

Environment committee  Yes, that's correct. When the animal fur activists were successful in the fur ban in the 1980s, our community had no economic means of being sustainable any more. The only opportunities we had for employment were with the resource extraction industry, so we changed our focus with

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There are just two more points and I'll be finished with my presentation. I just wanted to make the point that the federal government acquires billions of dollars from the oil sands through taxes and royalties. By 2020 the federal revenue is expected to

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning. Welcome to Edmonton. I would like to make a brief presentation. Recognizing that we have only five minutes, I have provided a document to the committee with respect to our presentation, which will elaborate on the points I'm going to mak