As the Member knows, the land claims agreements reference surface rights board and when discussions on access and benefits agreements were being discussed, everybody rushed to look at the land claims agreements to see what tools were there to deal with it. Obviously we don’t have a surface rights board, we don’t have surface rights legislation. The land claims only envision arbitration if there are differences of opinion. The federal government, if they were to develop surface rights legislation, it would probably take them a couple of years at least. My understanding is that the federal negotiator that was appointed, Mr. John Pollard, part of his mandate was to look at the surface rights board possibilities or potential as part of his report, just from my understanding. Other than that, we haven’t been involved with any of the surface rights development and if we were it would be ENR that would be involved because they are responsible for the regulatory process of the federal government and our dealings with the federal government and our government. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Bob McLeod on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 23rd, 2011. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 22nd, 2011
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