Mr. Chair, some of it has been used in the past for the Aboriginal Summit salaries. Now, Mr. Chair, what I just mentioned just a minute ago is what I want to do. I want to allocate all of the money that we have for grants and contributions to aboriginal organizations to the aboriginal organizations and let them determine how they are going to participate in the various forums. One of the problems we have had in the past is that we funded the Aboriginal Summit directly ourselves. The result of doing that was that the leaders became less and less close to that summit because they weren't involved in making the decisions about how it was funded and so on. We did that for them. Mr. Chair, what I want to do is get the money to the aboriginal organizations at the regional level and let them be governments. Thank you.
Joe Handley on Committee Motion 31-15(3): Recommendation To Hold Self-government And Land Claim Negotiations In Relevant Regions, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 31-15(3): Recommendation To Hold Self-government And Land Claim Negotiations In Relevant Regions, Carried
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 26th, 2006
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