Thank you, Madam Speaker. I think that the implementation of the United Nations declaration was a priority of this government, and I take it to heart. Many of the chapters within the declaration talk about "this shall be done by Indigenous people", and so I've taken that to heart, and I think that all Indigenous governments agree with me 100 percent. So right as soon as we began, we -- one of the finer things that we've done in this government, that we've never done before, we've always had the intergovernmental council that looks at land and resources. That was the last government's initiatives. However, this government has brought forward more. We have two other tables that we work with - the Modern Treaty and Self-government table and the Council of Leaders, which every Indigenous government sits at. So within the Council of Leaders where all governments are, they've insisted that we tackle the United Nations declaration. They're not waiting for the Legislative Assembly. They're taking it to heart, that this is about them.

So within that, within the Council of Leaders, there's what's called a secretariat. And so it's a working group, members, officials from all governments. We are one member of that council so we have one official. Every Indigenous government has an official as well. So that working group of officials has just recently established -- they brought it forward to the Council of Leaders table which was two weeks ago, I believe. Life goes fast. And the Council of Leaders have supported the recommended approach on the next steps to implement the declaration.

So four key points that the Council of Leaders have agreed that we will work towards is.

1. The co-developing of a law that implements the United Nations declaration in the Northwest Territories;
2. To establish a memorandum of understanding with Indigenous governments towards the development of the law;
3. To set a timeline for this work; and,
4. To provide the ability for Indigenous governments to continue to make recommendations towards implementation.

Madam Speaker, what I will commit to as well is as that work progresses, we do already have a Member that joins us for that work but I will commit to making sure that all Members are kept up to date with the works. Thank you, Madam Speaker.