Almost every area we're working to establish these days is done through some sort of co-operative management process with indigenous groups. We work in partnership to examine the proposals on the table, look at how they would meet shared interests and discuss co-operative governance mechanisms that can be put in place for making decisions. There are numerous examples of this across the country, such as Gwaii Haanas in B.C., which I'm sure your committee members would be familiar with, where we try to make sure we understand the interests.
As I mentioned earlier, there's always a diversity of perspectives. We don't expect that our indigenous partners will all speak with exactly the same voice, but we try to work with leadership, to consult with as many members as we can and to come up with solutions that we think meet everyone's interests. We do that really through a collaborative process. We're not deciding on behalf of first nations unilaterally.
