Regardless of whether an agreement is put in place or not, there is active work going on to build capacity as part of those negotiations. For instance, a lot of emphasis is put on emergency management plans, just as it is on the outcome documents that are signed. However, make no mistake, we want them too, but there's also a lot of value when first nation communities are part of that planning. The process of developing them is just as important as the outcome.
On November 25th, 2022. See this statement in context.