Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I referenced initially in my comments responding to the opening comments, this Land Use Sustainability Framework is the government’s thinking, and it’s a framework that captures how we want to deal with the broad issue of land use and the sustainability principles that have been a cornerstone and bedrock of this government’s approach to resource development and just in general our relationship to the land, the water and the animals. Within that framework there are other subsidiary frameworks that are being worked on, strategies. Minister Ramsay referenced one today: the Economic Development Strategy. There’s the Mineral Strategy, the Water Strategy, the Energy Strategy. They’re all linked in here to make sure we’re consistent with those fundamental principles and elements of what we see as critical when it comes to land use and that issue of sustainability.

So when we now talk to the Aboriginal governments about their land use plans, for example, the complaint out of the Dehcho has always been the territorial government’s thinking isn’t clear, we just sort of mill around, we follow the federal government, we never make a decision, all these types of things. It wounded us sorely to be characterized that way. We applied ourselves to

getting our thinking clear on this, and this is what that work will give us and it will allow us to, I believe, conclude the Dehcho Land Use Plan and will allow us to be more effective at the table as we deal with all the other regions when it comes to land use planning. Thank you.