Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as some of the Members from this side of the House know about the issue of a heritage fund, a trust fund, in terms of this issue here, I know, devolution. I'm glad again that, with the devolution, that the federal government is offering something, they want us to pay additional for something that they should be responsible. So I'm glad that the Premier and his staff are telling him not to sign just for the sake of signing and we have a devolution deal. Sometimes, like you said before, a deal might not be a good deal for us and...(inaudible)...will be pain for us. I'm going to ask the Premier in terms of any type of discussion, and I know you're coming close to it, and the Premier has got some direction from the Members here to work with the aboriginal groups in terms of working together. We've got to work together as a territory on this deal here. It's so important. So I know that adds more resources, more, I think, patience to how we get a deal for the Northwest Territories. He stated clearly that the aboriginal groups, the other agencies and groups in the Territories need to be onboard here. So is a heritage trust or some kind of trust in the works for us in terms of...I'm going to mix it up with devolution in terms of resource revenue sharing. What's the minimum in terms of the devolution that we could begin to see that, yes, it would come to a deal about the programs that we're going to assume from the federal government coming to the Northwest Territories? I know it's not going to be all at once that we're going to be flooded with everything, so is it over a period of years that we'll get one or two employees, next year we'll get two or three employees. I think that's all I wanted to ask, but I also wanted to say to the Premier that certainly, again, I would support him in terms of what things that we can do to certainly get the aboriginal groups onside to negotiate this devolution and resource revenue sharing. I'll save the rest for in the House tomorrow. Thank you.
Norman Yakeleya on Committee Motion 48-15(5) Establishment Of A Boards And Agencies Review Unit, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 48-15(5) Establishment Of A Boards And Agencies Review Unit, Carried
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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