The Nunavut Marine Council is referenced in the marine provisions of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. It provides an opportunity to bring together the institutions of public government that were established pursuant to the agreement, and for the Government of Canada and for the territorial government as well, if they wished, to partner and engage with the Nunavut Marine Council. It also provides for that council to address marine issues relating not just to sovereignty but all manner of issues. It would be a northern-based institution with a marine format that the Government of Canada could use to express the engagement and involvement of northerners in managing the northern marine environment. In that regard, it could be quite useful.
It's not going to be useful unless it adopts an extensive agenda. That agenda has yet to be developed because the council has not been established because the Government of Canada has felt for quite a few years and continues to feel unable to provide funding support to establish the council.