Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I believe that an Aboriginal devolution commission that’s resourced by our government can work towards this goal of Mr. Yakeleya’s question. Firstly what it does is it recognizes Aboriginal governments as governments. Even though it’s resourced by the GNWT, I believe that they can set their own mandate and goals. Establishing this commission does not mean that the Aboriginal governments actually agree with the agreement-in-principle, but all they’ve ever said is they want to understand it, they want to review it and I believe that this is the opportunity to do that. I would support that and I would bring that to the Assembly through a committee system looking for support and how we can best manage this and hopefully get an agreement where we can move forward with this new commission so we can work with our government and look to a solution of getting the agreement-in-principle agreed to by all partners in the Northwest Territories. Mahsi cho.
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