Mr. Speaker, we’ve put this document forward for consultation and we’ve extended the consultation period to, I believe, October 19th , at which time we will put it in a box,
basically, and we’ll include it with the transition document for consideration in the 18th Assembly,
which will include all the feedback we get.
This document is basically post-devolution. The Northwest Territories has taken over the Protected Areas Strategy and has rebranded it and packaged it and is putting is out as a Northern Conservation Action Plan. There is a process that we’re going to continue on with from the Protected Areas Strategy, and has been since 1999, a working group that includes representatives from all the different sectors of the economy and the territory, industry and business and communities, environmental groups, that type of thing that are part of the process and will continue to be part of that process as we move forward to provide oversight and work on the various areas that have been designated, some of them for literally decades now. Thank you.