Thank you. The discussion is one that might possibly touch on the Nunavut claims agreement. As the Members pointed out, hunting and harvesting rights have been constitutionally guaranteed to all Inuit equally. We shall review that, but I also know that many communities give priority to subsistence hunters and trappers before they give consideration to people who have jobs and other, more visible, higher forms of income. That might be a case where the HTA is balancing subsistence needs with the rights of all Inuit, for instance, GHL holders having equal access to the harvesting of these resources.
Stephen Kakfwi on Tabled Document 34-12(5): Tradition And Change, A Strategy For Renewable Resource Development In The Nwt, February 1994
In the Legislative Assembly on March 28th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Tabled Document 34-12(5): Tradition And Change, A Strategy For Renewable Resource Development In The Nwt, February 1994
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 27th, 1994
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