Mr. Chair, the point I was trying to make is that you can negotiate everything into a nice, fancy binder. At the end of the day, that’s all it is; a nice, fancy binder. Until you take that binder and you take the sections out of it and put it into legislation and put the legislation into force, then it enacts that legislation. Right now there are certain provisions or sections of these land claim agreements that have not legislatively been given that authority.

So in order for this government to bring life to that agreement, you have to legislate those sections of the agreement into territorial/federal legislation. That was the question I was asking. Like the Wildlife Act, you have to enact those sections so the agreement to give the power and intent of the agreement through legislative authority. So I would like to ask the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs again, why is it that this government is not moving and acting on those sections of legislation which will bring it into force by way of legislative enforcement which will have to be passed in this Legislature or even in the House of Commons by way of legislative effect?

I would like to ask again. Why is it that those sections of those agreements have not been legislatively entrenched such as the Wildlife Act? The Gwich’in claims have been signed some 17 years ago. In regards to the Inuvialuit, we are looking at over 20 years ago. I think that is why those agreements aren’t working. In order for those agreements to work, you have to legislate those agreements into force and give them the legislative tools that they need to really have the force and intent of those agreements. When can we see the legislative enforcement legislation brought forward to enforce those sections of the agreements which need those pieces of legislation passed or amended to allow for those sections, those agreements to be enacted under territorial legislation?