It may be that your ability to respond to a project like this may indicate to the committee what the nature of your responsibility is in working with these groups on it. Whether or not there are groups set up to present to the panel, the panel will still take these recommendations and go forward, and I'm sure your minister is going to be involved in the ones that are related to him. So in the final designation of these recommendations, he's going to make some decisions that will obviously match—if you've made this agreement in good conscience—the agreement. So your minister has some responsibility to match the agreement he has signed. Whether there's been prior consultation with the other groups, the Mackenzie gas panel is still comprised of many groups, and it may not reflect the Inuvialuit position at the end of the day.
On March 11th, 2008. See this statement in context.