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Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Question has been called. All those in favour? Abstentions? Any opposed? The motion is carried.

Carried

Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Question has been called. All those in favour? Abstentions? Motion is carried.

Carried

Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Question has been called. All those in favour? Abstentions? The motion is carried.

Carried

Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Agreed. Thank you, committee. We have concluded consideration of Committee Report 4419(2), Final Report of the Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agreements.

What is the wish of committee? Mr. O’Reilly.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Committee, we have agreed to consider Committee Report 4419(2), Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agreements.

I will go to the chair of the Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs for any opening comments. Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker, and mahsi to the Minister for that. I'm encouraged by the fact that they will have engagement, which was very lacking at the outset of the tar sands development in the early years, as we would have heard many statements of concern, something similar to the Berger Inquiry. Everybody remembers that one, when the pipeline was going to be coming up and down the Mackenzie Valley and there were a lot of concerns. Nothing was ever, ever heard from the Indigenous peoples. I notice the people from Fort Chipewyan have been voicing their concerns for quite a number of years. There's...