Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning. I come from the great Labrador riding. I say that for the edification of my colleague, Mr. Rickford, who loves to hear those particular words and phrases.
We came from Yukon, where there is devolution, and there may be certain nuances to their particular devolution agreement that they would like to see refined or maybe amended. Can you give us some tangible examples of where devolution would bring down the barriers to economic development in the territory?
I have to be careful about trying to use other people's words, those of the witnesses, but we also heard in Yukon that they didn't really want to see the abdication of the federal role and the federal responsibilities in certain aspects, particularly in relation to crown-aboriginal relations. So you have that sort of situation of wanting devolution but not wanting to see the abdication of the federal roles and responsibilities.
I'm asking where devolution fits in your vision. How does it bring down the barriers? If we're going to make a recommendation to the federal government, we could say something along the lines that we could expedite the devolution process for the NWT and for Nunavut when we hear from Nunavut. We can say things like that, and we can encourage that.
I just want to get your sense of some practical implications of devolution and where the aboriginal people of NWT fit into that particular picture.