The main objective for ACFN is to develop what we've described as this traditional lands and resource management plan that we see as the foundation for enabling the establishment of thresholds to protect treaty rights and livelihood. But it also significantly creates a framework within which government and industry, federal and provincial as well as the developers within the region, can then more effectively consult at a strategic rather than a transactional level with ACFN and other aboriginal communities.
What we face today is basically death by a thousand cuts. You're asked, in the course of your work, is this particular development okay? Oh well, what about this one? And it doesn't fit within a framework. Perhaps the most important thing for us to do is to bring that consultation and the plans and the programs that are developed to mitigate from an environmental perspective, but also to accommodate on a rights basis, into a framework that actually has measurable results against established thresholds and benchmarks. That is what is lacking in this country.