Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the big concern about funding the self-government arrangements along with the land claims has been a concern to us. The position of this Cabinet has been that we wanted to have as much agreement met in regard to the eventual funding of self-government arrangements prior to agreement-in-principle. However, upon the numerous attempts, the federal government and the Dogrib First Nations have decided that they would like to deal with the financial issues prior to the final agreement. So the position now of this government is that the financial responsibility of its incremental cost, whatever it may be, should be 100 percent borne by the federal government. This is the position we have had, and to date we have not come to any satisfactory arrangement with the federal government to try to accommodate us in our position. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 255-13(7): Dogrib Agreement-in-principle
In the Legislative Assembly on July 29th, 1999. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 255-13(7): Dogrib Agreement-in-principle
Question 255-13(7): Dogrib Agreement-in-principle
Item 6: Oral Questions
July 28th, 1999
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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