Thank you for the question, Mr. Bevington.
That's my understanding. The boards that do exist, which have grown out of the land claims authorities, have strong technical expertise. They bring in people who are harvesters. People who know the land are on these community-based or government-based boards. The boards are elected or appointed by the aboriginal authority and by the GNWT. And co-management is working. They're making solid decisions. They have excellent scientific backup and excellent indigenous backup on both scientific knowledge and indigenous science.
The appetite for making a super-board, or one board, is simply not there in the north. I think it may well quash the expertise that exists and that has grown up very strongly in the area. I see the boards on their own. Each has grown up on its own and is very much a regional board that is managing specific and particular issues in that region. Each is building excellent aboriginal capacity and non-aboriginal capacity to manage the issues.
Where are they going? They've built policies. They've managed to work together. They've managed to coordinate among themselves and have designed excellent and leading policy that other countries are looking to for northern capacity and northern governance.