The special committee had a very challenging mandate in relation to the implementation of self-government. After considering several technical and legal issues, we decided to highlight some particular trends and issues which describe broad categories that will require future detailed study.

We took this approach for three main reasons: we had relatively little time to examine and report on all the specific details related to the complex self-government processes; our mandate required that we not interfere with negotiations or overlap with other processes such as the Intergovernmental Forum; and self-government negotiations are not complete so there is still significant uncertainty about the nature and scope of some of the emerging governance systems.

An overview approach therefore seemed to be the most appropriate way to go. Our recommendations are a starting point only. For convenience we began by recommending three basic additions to existing assembly and GNWT structures:

Mr. Chairman, at this point, we wanted to know if there were any other general comments from Members. Thank you.