Mr. Chairman, my questions are to the Minister in regards to aboriginal affairs in the area of negotiations. There has been some time since a lot of land claims were settled, especially the ones in my riding from 1992 and 17 years later, but there are still a lot of provisions of those agreements that still haven’t been negotiated or implemented through territorial legislation.

I will use the Wildlife Act for instance. That has been outstanding for some time. We have an economic section that government doesn’t seem to want to touch because it might do something good for the Gwich’in and also dealing with forestry, which the government has the responsibility in the forestry provisions of the Gwich’in agreement, the same as the Sahtu. And also in other areas in regards to protected areas with the establishment of territorial parks in our settlement areas, whether it is the Gwich’in Territorial Park or the CANOL Trail. Those were negotiated in those agreements. Again, they are still not fully implemented.

I think the same thing also applies to lands in municipalities. We have municipal lands in all of our communities and also in Inuvik which is in the Gwich’in Settlement Area. I’d like to know why is it that this government is not moving on fully legislating those sections, those land claim agreements into territorial legislation when this government has legislative authority which has been devolved to this government from the federal government in such areas as wildlife, forestry and other areas in regards to protected areas which was the establishment of territorial parks. I would just like to ask the Minister exactly why is it taking so long and what is this government doing to implement those sections of those agreements.