Madam Chair, I wasn’t too involved with committee on this bill and my first question to the Minister would be on the Aboriginal rights, I guess, in these areas. I know there’s some discussion in some of the parks that we are establishing in the Sahtu and I know the fire restriction has to do with safety and precaution. People, when we go out on to the land, we like to make our fire and have some tea or whatever and sometimes these areas that we are protecting are used for public enjoyment. So I’m not too sure what provisions there are or how it’s being looked at in regard to having some of the older people who just want to go into a park and make a fire. Sometimes we explain to them that sometimes that’s not the case and they kind of get upset with us or ask why, we’ve done this all our lives. So those are the type of things I just want to ask the Minister to have some discussions in that area.
I know we’re having some discussions at the federal level of parks and our right to pursue the enjoyment of our land. That’s something that I wanted to raise so it’s clear on the record as to how this amendment to the territorial parks would affect the Aboriginal people and their right to enjoy the land as set out in several agreements. Thank you.