Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Tlicho agreement, number one, would have to be signed off and agreed to with the federal government. Once that is done, a number of things would happen and we are working already to ensure that when that timeline comes upon us we have agreements in place. There are discussions now on tax arrangements. Part of what would happen, and the scenario we see, is that we would...The federal government is involved in these discussions as giving tax room to the self-government group. Once they have that tax room from a GNWT perspective, we would see potentially some tax room going to the aboriginal group as well. Along with that would come the expenditure that is being made on behalf of the citizens. So that tax room would come with responsibility and some burden with it. So there are negotiations going on now. There are ongoing discussions about net fiscal benefit for those groups, the same discussions we are having with Ottawa right now in trying to ensure that we end up getting an actual benefit. So we are looking at options, trying to work with the groups to ensure that we have the appropriate levels of services and revenues to cover those services. If what Mr. Allen has discussed allows that to happen, we will be glad to do more work in that area. In our initial look at it, it doesn't seem that it would provide that for us at the existing time, but we will look at investigating it more if we can get more detail on how it would work. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 70-15(3): Self-government And Taxation
In the Legislative Assembly on March 24th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 70-15(3): Self-government And Taxation
Question 70-15(3): Self-government And Taxation
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 23rd, 2004
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