Thank you, Mr. Chair. In light of the responsibility of taking on more authority and responsibility for public lands and resources through the Devolution Agreement, it has always been at point at reality that what drove, perhaps, people to work together is just the uncertainty of First Nations and other governments. Recently there has been a trend towards land claim negotiations involving tripartite structures involving both levels of governments, federal and territorial governments and First Nations governments. Born
out of those efforts, we have land claim regimes. One very distinctive feature is the model of collaboration of co-management.
With the responsibility now, of course, keeping in mind that the other territories that are very similar in structure to the NWT are the Yukon and Nunavut, I want to know whether, indeed, we’re going down a path of taking on almost provincial-like management systems in approaching our partners with First Nations organizations and governments and whether that’s going to be changed.
The question that I wanted to ask is if the Minister could reaffirm that the joint stewardship and partnership of working in co-management still exists. Mahsi.
