Mr. Chairman, the vision for the NWT, where we look at how we do business, I think is one that is evolving in a sense of what will the GNWT be after all of the negotiation tables are agreed to, signed off and implemented. That would have a direct impact on our municipalities in the Northwest Territories, so the City of Yellowknife would be into that mix. Yes, we do have meetings at the regional aboriginal leadership tables and formalize those arrangements within the life of this government.
Our process of budget evaluation, legislation, policy comes to Members of the Assembly and we work through that process. Although most of the municipalities and community governments would say that they are community governments on their own, they are established underneath our legislation here and the members’ representation at the meetings would do that; I would say does justice to the groups, our municipalities in the Northwest Territories and what type of services they receive from us. Going forward as to what might be the future of our municipal governments in the Northwest Territories is fairly hard to define. It is pretty hard to say, we have a vision for that, because a lot of it will be driven by the self-government tables and what they actually agree to here in the Northwest Territories. I can use, for example, the Beaufort-Delta. There was a combined negotiation process for self-government. They were looking at a public government model. Shared governance structures, that could have an impact as to how we deliver services in our communities and how that would impact our community governments. Since then, that has changed. If a group goes purely to aboriginal government representation, then that changes what that may look like in operation of services within a community. We are quite a ways away from that in a number of tables that are there. The Akaitcho fall in this region and Yellowknife falls within that area, so it is hard, at this table, to put out there what might be the future. It all depends on the level of
negotiation and what is agreed to. As those negotiations get to the self-government phase, that would have a direct impact on how we would work with all levels of government, and we would at that point start involving them as to how things would flow and the types of impacts that would happen. Thank you.