Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, a mediator or somebody to find out the issues and make recommendations to all the parties.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee. I think it was very insightful of your committee to come to the north. I don't know how many other places you have been to, but I think it's a very good way of accumulating knowledge and to find out

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we have that in every instance, implementation committees where there are land claims settled. There exists such a committee, and if that doesn't work out, then there's access to arbitration. Perhaps the frustration is—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It involves the federal government, the territorial government, and the aboriginal government. If there's frustration, perhaps it's not at a high enough level. Typically it's one of our implementation directors who is on that implementation committee. Where there are differences,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I wouldn't say that nothing has changed. As I said, I think the new government is doing something right. What we suffer from is that we don't know where the government is going, and for a lot of the areas that they've indicated they want to go to, I think it would help if we had

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have a number of examples of exactly where that's happened. We had two land claims settled, and in terms of the boundaries, I guess whoever surveyed the boundaries surveyed them inaccurately, or they had two different boundaries where one group feels they've been—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —losing land, and others.... Both land claims have identical processes, and a committee gets together to resolve the issue, but the frustration is that it takes time.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I guess we would probably hire a....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We collect 100% of the resource revenues, and we remit the federal portion to the federal government. The remainder is split. We put 25% into a heritage fund, and we give 25% to the aboriginal governments that have signed on to devolution. The aboriginal governments that have sig

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I think it's about 75% or something like that...or 50%, sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Generally, for a mine, because of the fact that they have invested significant funds, it's usually at least three years before they start paying resource royalties, because they recover all of their costs for building a mine. Then, if they do invest in any infrastructure, well, t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, through the regulatory process, they typically would have an IBA, an impact benefit agreement, and through that, they negotiate with the developer or the proponent. We don't have access when it's negotiated at that level.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the two cases there, we recognized historical aboriginal use and occupancy, and we've suggested that it should be reciprocal. If land is taken away in the Northwest Territories for aboriginal governments in the provinces, they should do the same for aboriginal governments in t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, it hasn't been the case.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, that's right.