Mr. Chairman, if we can go to page 4-20, I just have a couple of questions. Mr. Chairman, on the active positions, our negotiators and the amount of resources we have, I know you have some of the negotiators working on several files. Are we confident enough because of the amount of work that goes on in negotiations with the staff, with the complexity of the issues, are we comfortable with the dollars that we have assigned to these people with the experience? Also you go into self-government with the aboriginal people learning about the culture, values and the way of life and where they are coming from to start seeing how they want to implement in their own terms and ways. Sometimes that requires our negotiators to be sensitive, because not everything that is going to be implemented in our communities is going to go in this existing system. That is where we have some of the issues here. Can we have with the active numbers of negotiators comfortable enough to…Are they going to press hard on the lines or are they open enough to say, okay, from the aboriginal world view, this is how we will give you the benefit of the doubt to look at programs this way in terms of implementation? Or they will say, no, this is my mandate. This is what I am going to go home with. I will be darned if I am going to change in terms of signing off on this agreement. I just want to get a sense from the Minister.
Norman Yakeleya on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 23rd, 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 22nd, 2009
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