Mr. Chairman, the point about getting out to communities is one that’s well taken. One of the things that we have to work on with our shrinking travel budgets is to operate within our allotment so we try to get the teams out with the meetings, for example, as the Member highlighted, the regional leadership meeting we just held in Fort Simpson. That team was a different team. The negotiation team does work a lot with the negotiation tables and the leaders of those communities. With the new set of meetings that we’ve established now with aboriginal leadership we bring our intergovernmental relations team now to the table and we’ve had an addition to that workforce and that member joined us on this recent trip. In a sense, it is becoming a familiarizing process amongst our staff in IG. We usually take those teams to provincial meetings, to pan-territorial meetings and to federal/provincial meetings as well. This is an extension of that now dealing with the regional aboriginal leadership meetings that we set up and structured. I believe, as we progress through this, we will make more and more contact and people will become familiar with our team and build that relationship that we’re working on. I thank the Member for his comments in that area and we’ll do our best to continue to grow and strengthen in that area. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 19th, 2009
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