Under the Northern Accord agreement it states:
Nothing in this agreement will abrogate or derogate from any of the provisions included in any aboriginal land claims settlements including the following subjects:
a) land use planning;
b) environmental impact screening and
review;
c) land and water use permitting;
d) wildlife management and compensation;
e) surface
rights;
f) subsurface
rights;
g) benefit
agreements;
h) creation and management of national and
territorial parks and conservation areas;
i)
resource revenue sharing.
For greater certainty, the oil and gas management are required in the establishment of pursuing this agreement shall be comparable to those in the land claim agreements.
So this agreement states that you have to follow the land claims agreements with regard to how you implement devolution.
So I’d like to know why we aren’t following the Northern Accord as it was laid out, to ensure those provisions of the land claims agreements will be upheld.