Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to assure my honourable colleague that I think steps are in place right now by all parties, on this side of the table, anyway, to try to accelerate a comprehensive and full response from the federal government. We are hoping that we will get a comprehensive response. One of the charges levelled against us in the previous report was our inability to respond in a timely and effective manner. It took us almost 12 months to do that. One of the concerns now being expressed by some, is that we have responded in a timely and effective manner, but we do not like what you have said. I think that it is equally important to find out what the other two parties feel before an appropriate consensus is reached, as to what form of government we require. We can then work towards costing it, both east and west, and move onward to the negotiations which, hopefully, will get started sometime time in March with the federal government. There is a concerted effort on our part to explain the urgent need for a response to Footprints in the Snow 2, from the two other parties, and that once these responses are provided, we can sit down, collectively, and try to reach a consensus on the core framework of the new Nunavut government. Assuming consensus can be reached, it would provide us with the vehicle and the tool to move forward with our negotiations on the form of financing and, as I said yesterday, more importantly, the incremental costs. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 88-13(4): Responses To Footprints 2 From Nti And The Federal Government
In the Legislative Assembly on January 22nd, 1997. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 88-13(4): Responses To Footprints 2 From Nti And The Federal
Question 88-13(4): Responses To Footprints 2 From Nti And The Federal Government
Item 6: Oral Questions
January 21st, 1997
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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