Environment committee  That's a good question. I think that to look forward is to look at what we have now in the migratory bird sanctuaries and national wildlife areas, in which we have an umbrella IIBA. For those 15 protected areas, we negotiated an agreement of $8.3 million over seven years, from 20

Environment committee  Our agreement says that they're any protected areas in this negotiated impact and benefit agreement. These are there. The problem is that—

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes. We know that the government spends $28 billion a year on grants and contribution agreements for government programs and services. Typically, our land claim agreement obligations have been lumped into these contribution agreements. We don't feel that land claim obligations sh

Environment committee  The last question was about the two in breach?

Environment committee  The agreement says that an impact and benefit agreement is to be negotiated for any protected area, and there were a number of protected areas already in existence when the land claim agreement was signed in 1993. So the land claim agreement said that these protected areas must h

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you. It was based on the last point. I think the government is realizing that it can no longer shirk its constitutionally protected land claim agreement obligations, and so we're heading in a positive direction. We hope to see some positive movement on thes

Environment committee  It's important to note that Nunavut represents one-fifth of the land mass of Canada. I just wrote down a list of the current protected areas that we have. Just quickly to name them, we have eight migratory bird sanctuaries, five national wildlife areas, six national parks, the La

Environment committee  Absolutely. Because of the IIBA requirement, it's an obligation that the federal government has to do before an IIBA is done. It is public and we look forward to publishing those. There are some existing IIBAs for protected areas, and government is actually in breach of some prot