Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the constitutional process for consultation, we have been successful in having commitments from the GNWT for funding as well as the federal government. The federal government has some conditions on the funding that is provided to us. These conditions could be met. We actually had a meeting on Monday and Tuesday nights and on Monday night we had some federal officials there. In the discussions, they were saying that the conditions are based on the preliminary... they may have been too strict but they are willing to relax on the funding. The main point here is that the agreement is that we are going to go ahead to do the consultation with the money that is provided. Conditions are that we have funding until the end of March but they said they will be flexible to extend it into the new fiscal year. This is mainly a fiscal year type of exercise so there is flexibility there that the funding provided will flow into the new fiscal year so that we can do the work that is necessary to be done. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 252-13(4): Funding For Constitutional Consultation
In the Legislative Assembly on February 6th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 252-13(4): Funding For Constitutional Consultation
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 5th, 1997
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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