Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again, getting back to my Member’s statement and also in regard to the whole area of change that has taken place since the famous Order-in-Council passed in 1960 by the federal Cabinet. Mr. Speaker, the Northwest Territories has had a grave history in regard to how aboriginal people have moved forward and trying to find ways of getting entrenched into the democratic system of the Northwest Territories regardless if it’s by way of ensuring that we were involved in the decision-making process, regardless if it’s regulatory management boards, economic measures. But again, Mr. Speaker, where a lot of these powers really took hold was in the Constitution Act amendments in 1982 in regard to the Canadian Constitution amendments which recognized and affirmed aboriginal rights under Section 35.
Since then, Mr. Speaker, we’re talking about something that took place in 1960. Yet, all these activities have changed the legal precedents that have been set. We have the Marshall case. We have court cases that have set precedents in Canada. But for a government to go back to 1960 and pull something out of the archives and say this is where I got my authority from is not the way that the government should be operating. We have the NWT Act. There’s a process to make amendments to the NWT Act. Why is this government not using that process to find ways to resolve this issue and do it by amendments to legislation that this government is responsible for in the NWT in regard to the Wildlife Act?