Thank you, Madam Chair. Under this section, I picked up from a couple of the comments and it's something that I hear and live and talk about all the time in my community: committed to doing business differently. The Premier has stated this over and over and over again, that the GNWT is committed to doing business differently and they want to work unilaterally with our Indigenous governments at the negotiating tables; saying that, and having this as a mandate, but yet our negotiating teams continue as a unilateral, by themselves. The federal government is not pushing it. Core principle objectives, CPOs; this is what I hear about from different leaderships, is the GNWT continues to push CPOs at the table, and Indigenous governments feel that this is a barrier for it to move forward because, and I'll discuss that further when we get to the next section, if we're going to the table to negotiate land claims, self-governments, and we're going to respect the rights of these negotiations and we're going to the table, then how are we pushing CPOs that are government CPO standards and they have the right to change them whenever they want to change them, and Indigenous governments, it's kind of "take it or leave it?" Thank you, Madam Chair.
Lesa Semmler on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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