Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question today is for the Minister of ITI. The Gwich’in signed a land claim agreement in 1992. In that agreement there are several elements regarding the economic measures chapter, protected areas chapter, establishment of the Gwich’in Territorial Park just outside of Inuvik. There’s a lot of protection agreements that we’ve put in place that were supposed to establish a park management plan regarding how that park was going to be managed with respect to the Gwich’in Territorial Park. There was establishment of a park committee to oversee the implementation of the park and ongoing economic social programs that could be run to enhance the Gwich’in’s involvement in managing that park.

Today there is still, regardless of the park plan in place, contracts being let publicly without consulting the Gwich’in regarding those economic opportunities. I would like to ask the Minister of ITI how seriously this government takes the Gwich’in Territorial Park and the park management agreement that was signed between the

Government of the Northwest Territories and the Gwich’in Tribal Council to implement that park.