Like the Minister mentioned, this issue has been around for a couple years now. It’s not like it just happened yesterday. This issue has come to this House about three or four times, as long as I’ve been here. They basically requested that when the last permits were issued for the department’s marine operations with regard to landing at those locations, they requested that a study be done a number of years ago regarding this particular issue.
So I’d like to ask the Minister, in regard to the Gwich’in Land Claim Agreement 12.4.13 where it talks about these type of disputes and the mechanisms that are there to resolve it, and the
option to go to arbitration, is that what this government wants? Are they willing to follow the Land Claim Agreement in regard to this type of conflict between harvesters and developers?