I can certainly try to answer some of those questions.
If you look at Thaidene Nëné, it has a long history for sure. The interest of Canada in creating a national park in that area was first expressed back in the late 1960s or early 1970s, but at that point in time, just as with the creation of particular areas like Wood Buffalo National Park, the laws of the country were not conducive for indigenous governments agreeing to national parks, including the use on that proposed Lutsel K'e national park at that time. Section 35 of the Constitution Act 1982 gave us some comfort to move forward and explore the possibility of entering into a relationship with Canada through Parks Canada.
Making resources available to indigenous governments and communities to go and explore what's out there and best practices is one key investment that Canada can make, but I also have to acknowledge the leadership of Mr. Latourelle on the Thaidene Nëné file. It takes leadership from the Government of Canada to give comfort to aboriginal governments to move forward together.
Thaidene Nëné is very similar to Gwaii Haanas. We built Thaidene Nëné on Gwaii Haanas, which is the closest thing in Canada to a government-to-government relationship in the management and operations of that protected area. It took a little while to get the Government of Canada back to that state of mind. I think what took the longest time was bringing Canada to that state of mind where we could work together from a government-to-government perspective. That's one aspect.
The other very important aspect is that we have been able to have our own funds that we have control over. That's where the trust fund comes in. The trust fund gives comfort to Lutsel K'e to get into a government-to-government relationship with Canada wherein we have our own financial resources to contribute to the operations and management of Thaidene Nëné and not depend on the Government of Canada or the Government of the Northwest Territories on an annual basis to provide such resources. We have seen in the past where, if the crown has controlled the dollars, it eventually takes over using that control.