Mr. Paul Quassa at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

As we said earlier, I think we've spent about 90 days now touring some Nunavut communities. We're planning to go to each and every Nunavut community.

We have heard how important land use planning is within the Nunavut settlement area. The communities do want to ensure that the areas they want protected are protected, or that the areas they wanted developed are developed. I believe that's very much part of what the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement states there—the importance of land use planning within our territory.