Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I'm Bertha Rabesca Zoe. Canada, because of devolution, is making certain amendments to federal legislation, and GNWT is developing and drafting mirror legislation so that devolution can happen. We're quite involved in that work, those of us who are parties and techn

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, they did not.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What you have up here are three aboriginal groups with land claims that have signed on as parties to the devolution agreement. We don't have any issues with that. As we said earlier, very clearly, we have issues with the MVRMA and the killing off of our regional boards.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll just build on what Ethel was saying about the framework agreement. I have here, and I will submit it to the clerk of the committee when we're done, a draft framework agreement called “Draft Framework for Process Respecting Changes to MVRMA and the Regulatory System in NWT”

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I think we need to also understand a bit of the background on the MVRMA and the changes. There are two types of changes that were contemplated in the MVRMA. One type is what we call the operational changes, and one is the structural change. It's the structural change

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mahsi. Implementation is crucial to the parties in meeting their obligations under land claim agreements. There has been ample work done on it, and studies and reports through parliamentary committees and the Auditor General over the years, since land claims have been in existen

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mahsi. As you know, the Tlicho are self-governing, and with governments you have jurisdictions. When it comes to the issues of health, education, and housing—the question you're asking—a lot of that is within self-government agreements and the shared jurisdiction. The Tlicho hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, as Ethel mentioned, with regard to the procurement issues and the economic chapters in the agreement, the implementation of those needs to happen seriously. We all have similar economic measures chapters that deal with procurement in our region and that deal with a lot of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Tlicho have a full box of governance. There are other agreements, negotiated rights, that we don't have and we can negotiate that into our agreement. We do have, as Grand Chief said, 39,000 square kilometres of land, which is huge. One of the first things the government did w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Tlicho have a different position, that through the intergovernmental services agency that the Tlicho are actively involved in, that it's all driven by the Tlicho. In the school system, their principle is “strong like two people”. So we haven't exercised that jurisdiction, but

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are no renegotiations of the agreement. There are amendment provisions, but the implementation plan that accompanies those agreements is for 10 years, and there are options to renew or renegotiate.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Currently we're working with Canada regarding some discrepancies within our boundaries. So we're trying to work those out before we finalize anything. There's no huge thing, but we're working with NRCan on finalizing the boundary. It is finalized, but there are just a few discrep

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Tlicho did an impact study of the Tlicho agreement on the northern economy. It showed that we contributed about half a million dollars to the northern economy because of the Tlicho agreement, through our businesses and all of that. Could we give it to the committee?

Government Operations committee  He is first.

Government Operations committee  Twelve.