The NWMB is actually an administrative tribunal. It's a regulatory agency, like the National Energy Board or the CRTC, or all those administrative boards that we're all familiar with. So it is not an aboriginal organization, but it's established under a land claims agreement and much of its public is aboriginal, the Inuit people. So the NWMB plays the same role as another administrative agency.
It's arm's length from Inuit, from the National Aboriginal Council on Species at Risk, from Environment Canada, and so on. It operates under the terms of administrative law and the land claims agreement, but it's an independent institution of public government.