Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the two ministers for joining us. I really appreciated the presentation. It was very informative and interesting, for sure.
I've been involved in indigenous issues for most of my adult life, trying to deal with the situation in the community I live in and the communities across the north when it comes to quality of life. I was attending tribal council meetings when I was 17 years old. Some of the issues that we're talking about now are issues that I was talking about then.
A lot of effort has been made to bring back what was lost. We now have 14 tables in the Northwest Territories that are talking about land claims, land tenure, self-governance and compensation. It's all important stuff and we need to right some of the wrongs that were happening to us. We've also made a lot of progress on resource revenue sharing and on mandatory process participation. It's all important stuff.
However, we needed some changes to be made. I was really happy to see the new self-government fiscal policy come into play. It was done in a collaborative approach with indigenous people and it's a good document.
I wanted to ask the minister if she could tell me how that document—they call it the “green book”—covers economic development and how that's going to benefit the indigenous people.