Thank you, Madam Speaker. I appreciate the fact that this government doesn't want to negotiate all the dollars away. The point I want to make is that when the federal and territorial governments are negotiating resource revenue sharing and the aboriginal governments want their direct fiscal benefits coming from the federal level right to the aboriginal government in their respective regions, why is that an issue with this government if they want to help their aboriginal people who have been deprived of education, health, housing and help those aboriginal governments, bring those people up, those aboriginal resources that they have, bring them up to a level of capacity where they can actually start to move and take on more government responsibilities from this House and directly from the federal level. So is this a mandate of the devolution and resource revenue sharing agreement, or is this something that's totally separate as a self-government negotiating item? Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 56-15(4): Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing Negotiations
In the Legislative Assembly on May 31st, 2005. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 56-15(4): Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing Negotiations
Question 56-15(4): Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing Negotiations
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 30th, 2005
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