David Krutko

Does committee agree?

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I know I’ll put the Premier in a controversial situation. Did the Department of Aboriginal Affairs get their own legal advice on the devolution agreement from the Aboriginal Affairs perspective and not from the Executive perspective? I’m saying that in the confines of the land claims agreements and the obligation under the land claim agreements which clearly stipulate that you shall include those groups that have those agreements, but more importantly, look at the constitutional validity of treaty rights, Aboriginal rights and in regard to the UN Declaration of how this arrangement has...

Minister Miltenberger.

Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table a document entitled Report re Fiscal and Self-Government Issues in Connection with Devolution, prepared for Richard Nerysoo, president of the Gwich’in Tribal Council in Inuvik, by Peter Eglington and Lew Voytilla, dated January 25, 2011. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, in regards to contract services, $145,000, could I get a breakdown of that?

Does committee agree that we’ve conclude the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations?

Minister of Finance.

Again, even in the Minister’s opening remarks he made reference to the whole idea of Creating Our Future Together but it seemed like the Northern Leaders’ Forum, the only groups he seemed to go anywhere with is the same groups that signed the devolution agreement, which is the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the NWT Metis Nation and the NWT Association of Communities. I was at the last meeting and it was kind of quiet. There weren’t too many; a lot of empty seats. Just understand that the funding is for the Northern Leaders’ Forum yet there’s another pot of money there for the regional...