 The Permanent Forum notes on indigenous peoples' right to food and food sovereignty is inextricably linked with the collective recognition of rights to land and territories and resources, culture values, social organizations, subsistence activities such as hunting, fishing, traditional herding, and shifting cultivation and gathering are essential not only to the right to food but to nurture in their cultures, languages, social life, and identity and I wanted to point to that because during the summer and even now many of our communities across the province are in a process of harvesting and putting away food for the winter and the impacts that that we see from development whether it's login or mining or pipeline development or oil and gas development the impact of that on our communities and our people's ability to to to continue our traditions and to continue to rely on the food from our lands is important many if you know that for many of our communities the social assistance is a primary source of income and it's not very much so our people continue to maintain their reliance on the land and the resources that it has so it's important to protect the land and the environment to ensure that the food that comes into our houses and that feeds our people is is is not toxic and it's not contaminated where I come from there's a mine and behind one of our villages not far away that contaminated the lake the food from that lake is completely off off limits now even though that mine has been closed for some 30 years so the discussion that Carla mentioned about Kinder Morgan the the point that were raised around the Northern Gateway and Stuart mentioned that there's been several several there there are more than one or two pipelines being proposed taken together those pipelines running through that's that core in the north there needs to be a rationalization there's already a pipeline through that area and and there's proposal for at least three or four others and the cumulative impact of those proposals and their impacts we don't really know for sure and the environmental assessment process now such as it is or such as it remains is not going to be that that important safeguard anymore because now it becomes a political decision at the cabinet through the minister ministers recommendation whether or not projects proceed in many cases without any any review at all of the environmental impacts that we have in this country environmental assessment impacts to a limited degree now what we don't have is indigenous peoples impacts assessments or assessments dealing with the impacts of indigenous peoples and and so so we have to fit our our stories into these environmental assessment impacts but there are also people impacts for sure