Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What I would say is that land claim agreements have a lot of expectations built in. There are expectations on all sides, and when those expectations don't line up you end up with a disagreement and, potentially, disputes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The question of dispute resolution is a thorny one in the implementation of land claim agreements. We are discovering the tool kit is pretty small in the formal agreements. We seem to have arbitration as the one tool, and it's a great big tool that doesn't work for a lot of the day-to-day issues that arise.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll see if I can remember the five candidate land claim agreements. It would be the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and I think the Inuit of northern Quebec. I'm not remembering the others offhand. I could get that information for the committee, if that's desired.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. The Auditor General has been recommending for some time that the department evaluate the impact of land claim agreements, because we've put a fair amount of energy into negotiating and implementing these agreements, so we have developed an approach.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Normally when you want to evaluate the impact of something, you take the situation at the start of the event, you check the situation at some phase during the event, and you compare the two. What we have consultants doing right now is trying to determine what amounts of data exist, particularly data that we can measure going back.