Mahsi, Madam Chair. At the standing committee stage, we did work together as a technical working group and the department and the Standing Committee on the amendment to include the mandatory provision to make sure that licenses and permits issued under the bill will be in compliance with land use plans. That was one of the examples of -- one example of the 22 amendments that we worked through that really met a mutual goal and was very important. And the technical working group was fully behind that.
In terms of the municipal bylaws and how to consider that, the Forest Act technical working group did carefully consider whether or not and how to look at local bylaws. And we did feel that instead of imposing a solution on municipalities at this time, the technical working group, our understanding is that GNWT and the department will carefully consider and engage municipalities and community partners on possible approaches to deal with municipal level matters. And we know that under the collaboration protocol, the Indigenous governments would be involved in that as well. So the technical working group agrees with the department on that approach.
And also in our discussions, we emphasized that land use plans are critically important, and they're critically important for land and resource management, especially under the modern treaties. And we want to make sure that municipal bylaws are not conflated at all with the land use plans that arise from Indigenous governments' constitutional rights and authorities to manage or, in some cases, to co-manage land and resources. Mahsi.