Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I guess I'm just having a bit of difficulty understanding some of the things that I just heard. But, you know, I guess I'm pushing this because the Northwest Territories Association of Communities in their written submission said the following: There should be some sort of acknowledgement of complying with various types of community bylaws including, but not limited to, general plans and zoning bylaws, fire prevention bylaws, tree harvesting bylaws, soil protection bylaws, open air burning bylaws, among others.
So we're only talking about land use planning at this point so -- but they've specifically asked for zoning bylaws to be recognized in here, and that's what their -- a legitimate order of government, community governments, and I'm not sure why we would accord them any less status than federal -- the federal government, which has enacted the MVRMA, but the -- you know, community governments through the -- I better get the name of the legislation properly here, Madam Chair.
It's the Community Planning and Development Act, section 18(1), says the following: A zoning bylaw may include provisions respecting one or more of the following matters either generally or with respect to any zone or part of a zone, (o) cutting of trees, (p) preservation of habitat. They can also regulate land use by having permitted/not permitted uses. So I don't know why, if we've recognized land use plans that are enacted through federal legislation, we can't accord the same sort of consideration to zoning bylaws which enable -- currently enable community governments to do much the same thing. But we just -- I guess I've heard from the witnesses that they don't want to go there right now. This is not about imposing anything on community governments. This is in response to what NWTAC said to committee. So with all of that, Madam Chair, I do want to move a motion if I can.