Thank you. We are not talking about restricting or removing any rights, we are talking about conservation, we’re talking about an accommodation with the aboriginal governments to ensure that their people have access to subsistence harvest. There is agreement by the Tlicho, support by the Tlicho, support by the Metis Nation. We are working on a resolution with the Yellowknives. We are interested in resolving this. The Members in this House now have become legal scholars, well scripted with legal questions from vast talk and smooth-talking lawyers and that’s not our job. If there’s a question about our authority, we can have that discussion. We can fill the room with lawyers and technical staff and we can have the debate about are we a duly constituted government, do we have that authority. I suggest to you that clearly we do. Every land claim that has been signed recognizes the need for conservation and the role of the government to be able to step in, and even in unsettled claims areas, 35-1, as well gives us a process to be able to do that carefully, but we are dully constituted to do that. We’re going to do that very carefully and we want to resolve the outstanding issues with the Yellowknives.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 258-16(4): Caribou Management Measures
In the Legislative Assembly on February 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 258-16(4): Caribou Management Measures
Oral Questions
February 3rd, 2010
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