Mr. Chairman, I hope that we don't distribute it on a per capita basis. I expect that we will put forward a base-plus funding arrangement, similar to what we did with the community infrastructure funding, so that every region that participates would have a fair allocation of money. It wouldn't be just straight per capita. That remains to be concluded, though. We want to work with the aboriginal organization to determine how to best do this. Mr. Chairman, the participants so far in the summit have been the Inuvialuit, the Gwich'in, the Sahtu, the Dehcho have had observer status and I'm not sure if that's going to change, same with the Akaitcho, the North Slave Metis participated, as did the NWT Metis. So, Mr. Chairman, it pretty much covered everybody. But, Mr. Chairman, if for some reason a particular claimant organization decided it didn't want to participate in a forum, but rather they were just going to go on their own and not participate on a territorial basis in some form of summit, then we would have to decide whether or not we were going to provide them with funding. But because the funding is to participate in a territorial organization, my leaning would be not to provide them funding unless they participated. 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 27th, 2006
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