Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The amendment would seek to have a delegation be compliant with the Yukon Northern Affairs Program Devolution Transfer Agreement, but that agreement doesn't address any issues with respect to the delegation of authority between the federal minister and the territorial minister.
There would be quite a bit of ambiguity as to what “compliance” would mean. The Yukon transfer agreement doesn't have any provision that a delegation by a federal minister to a territorial minister would be compliant with it. That is not addressed, so the question of what “compliance” would mean would be ambiguous.
The Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement has a provision that allows for public governments to delegate responsibilities among themselves to determine what powers of a public government minister should be exercised by whom.
YESAA has a provision that says the delegation would have to be compliant with those final agreements, and the Yukon Northern Affairs Program Devolution Transfer Agreement itself has a provision that says nothing in that agreement can be inconsistent with the land claim agreements, so from an interpretive prism, it's the government's view that the Yukon final agreement should be the test of whether a delegation is within law or not within law, and not the Yukon devolution transfer.