I appreciate the response that the Minister gave. I wasn't expressing a concern for the Deh Cho region, but I was expressing a concern more over the claimant areas where companies are staking claims. I thought those were areas in which that whole purpose was to protect those lands in those areas. I don't know if surveys have been done. There are lands where surface or sub-surface has been selected. We don't know if the people going over their staking claims are doing it in non-claimant areas. Perhaps those are areas which have been selected by claimant groups. That is my whole concern. It seems that we are not concerning ourselves over that. I thought the whole purpose was to get...Once a claim is agreed to, finalized and ratified, then you send a strong message to the companies and industries that those are our lands now and you have to talk to us before you go in there and start developing. I am not hearing it.
Samuel Gargan on Bill 1: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1994-95Committee Report 2-12(5): Review Of The 1994-95 Main Estimates
In the Legislative Assembly on February 22nd, 1994. See this statement in context.
Bill 1: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1994-95Committee Report 2-12(5): Review Of The 1994-95 Main Estimates
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 21st, 1994
Page 297
Samuel Gargan Deh Cho
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