Mr. Chairman, usually on the land use plans that are developed, they are developed and the principle is set up in, for example, a land claim agreement. Those are the ones we have examples of, and then, as they’re signed, implementation then goes into developing the actual land use plan. But we’ve also had tables that are in negotiations now working on a land use plan at the same time or, in fact, have probably got the land use plan further ahead than actual negotiations of the main table, in a sense.

For, again, different aspects, as the Member highlighted and I responded earlier, as ENR helps with the land use framework itself and land use planning. For allocations, for example, when we set a target of a percentage that would be set aside for economic development purposes in the future, that would be an initiative that would be between the Executive and Aboriginal Affairs and other departments. We’d pull them together. So Executive would be the coordinating role in pulling information from all the departments to come up with what we think would be the best solution possible, taking into consideration demands for programs and services. If we were to actually take

down full authority, and knowing that there’s a shortfall in the dollars that we have in today’s environment, needing to come up with some new resources in the future. Economic potential for whether it is the GNWT who ends up delivering a program and service or the aboriginal self-government who delivers that service, they’re going to need a revenue base to deliver that. That is what we take into consideration. For example, we use the MERA, and that’s the Minerals, Energy… Oh, I’ll have to get the proper terminology, but I think Members are familiar with the acronym of MERA, and that is to do an assessment of the mineral potential in the area and we would take that into our discussions of what we could work with and what the future may be for economic development in a particular region. So that helps us put that together.

All of that, though, as we discussed earlier, is in the mandate reviews we will be doing. We will be putting that forward. What we don’t want to be doing... No matter what we do at the end of the day, we want to ensure that there are enough resources available for whether it is a public government delivery or a self-government delivery, that the revenues are in place to deliver services that the people expect to have as these agreements get implemented. Thank you.