Finance committee  In the Northwest Territories, we don't export anything. We are small in population. We are a resource-based economy that's dependent on the world's economic cycles. Boom and bust is an issue. Thaidene Nëné will stabilize that boom and bust environment. It will create a stable ec

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. McLeod. A good thing always brings people together and Thaidene Nëné is a good thing. Thaidene Nëné has certainly brought, from the indigenous side anyway, the descendants of the ancestors together to pursue the protection of the land of the ancestors. Thaidene Në

Finance committee  Mahsi cho, Mr. Chairman, and mahsi cho, Chief and committee members. I also would like to thank you for giving us the time to share the good news that is Thaidene Nëné. As Chief Marlowe indicated, we have been diligently working with both levels of Crown governments over a numb

Environment committee  One of the biggest challenges we had at the negotiating table was fettering the minister's authority. When we're talking nation-to-nation discussions, the minister has to be able to get into a partnership relationship with indigenous governments and be able to share responsibilit

Environment committee  I believe that Thaidene Nene is a damn good idea. If it has wings, I'll put wind underneath those wings.

Environment committee  All right.

Environment committee  Thank you for having me.

Environment committee  A good idea always finds wings. We think that Thaidene Nene is a good idea, and we think that the guardianship program is a good idea. I'll give you an example. Right now we have our Ni Hat’ni Dene program, our guardians program. We've been running it for 10 years. We've been wo

Environment committee  We've studied the tourism aspect of it. We've hired the people who do this for a living. We know that aboriginal tourism globally is a $2 billion-a-year industry and growing. You just have to look at the Klemtu and Bella Bella on the central coast of B.C. I believe you guys have

Environment committee  Like I said, we've reached a table agreement with negotiators on the establishment, so that's the relationship document that guides the relationship between Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation and Parks Canada.

Environment committee  The negotiation itself went fairly well. We started formal negotiations in October of 2010, with a restructuring of the parks with Parks Canada. We lost about six months of negotiations with illness. With other things, we lost another two months. We reached AIP stage in 2013, so

Environment committee  It'll be a legal instrument that will be owned by the first nation. The first expenditure will be towards the management operations of Thaidene Nene. No trust fund can be created in perpetuity, so every 25 years that'll be folded up, but the value of $30 million has to go back in

Environment committee  Yes, we certainly had the confidence in ourselves. We had to convince Parks Canada to go there even after they agreed to pursue a negotiation settlement. We threatened to step away from the table if they didn't go down that road with us, and it took them a while to get on that ro

Environment committee  The value is that we would work together, nation to nation, as equals. We would be partners in the management and operations of Thaidene Nene.

Environment committee  We don't have a protected area. It's in the proposal stage.