Thank you, Councillor.
Good afternoon, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank everybody for this opportunity to speak.
I'll give just a brief history of the processes with our community. We got a community mandate in 2009. In 2012, we got the framework agreement. In 2017, we got the approval in principle. We worked with a number of ministers, including Chuck Strahl, John Duncan, Carolyn Bennett and of course Minister Marc Miller. I want to thank them for their support throughout.
Negotiations were complete in the summer of 2022 with a self-government agreement. We had a community vote and they were very excited. Our mandate was to sign a self-government agreement. We were part of the First Nations Land Management Act, so we've been self-governing for about 20 years already. This was just the next step into self-governing. We had an approval rate of 92% when we had the vote on the constitution and self-government agreement, and more negotiations with Mr. Miller with a self-government treaty.
We had to amend and get a ratification vote on that. There was 100% approval in our community, so they are pretty excited. They can't wait to get this done.
I want to thank you all for your time.