Certainly the Minister is correct in terms of reviewing some of the mandates that are before this government. Those are the marching orders to his generals and captains in terms of the process we’re going to be involved in. They have to answer to the Minister who answers to the Assembly in terms of the direction of the Northwest Territories. I think the Premier is certainly correct on his assessment here. I guess I was getting around in terms of a framework and our political development.
Certainly once the Gwich’in and the Inuvialuit start drawing down on their powers in terms of their jurisdiction, you’re going to see a major shift in this Assembly. The Tlicho are already in their self-governance. I guess I’m looking at in terms of a framework within this intergovernmental relationship with...and he may have more insights as to this discussion here and where it’s going. I guess what I’m looking at is a framework for a vision. Look at the board reform. See the result in the board reform. We had a framework with that type of guidance and I’m not too sure how it would be today, but the resource revenue sharing and devolution are certainly going to have a political and constitutional impact on this government within this Assembly.
That’s what I’m looking for and maybe the Premier through his department already has something that in fact would help us with our discussions. He’s made mention of the mandates that certainly we have to bring them forward and have discussions on them. Maybe that’s the start of building something. I’m afraid this House is going to fall down if we don’t look at serious stuff of the agreements that are happening now. The constitutional impacts of these agreements. I think in five or 10 years we should start preparing ourselves for some of these. I guess that’s what I’m saying. I’m hoping that we’ll have some direction before we pass the Assembly to the next group of MLAs. At least for the government in terms of intergovernmental relationships with the other governments, that’s what I’m looking for. These are some of my comments that I pass on. Certainly the Minister can respond or he can take them as comments and I look forward to the mandates review.
Just on closing, the mandate reviews that we’re going to have and the mandates that this current
government has in terms of how to deal with the communities in our regions.