Bob McLeod

We’ll look at it and see why we weren’t making it public in the first place. So we’ll take it under consideration. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

As I already indicated to MLA Bromley, I don’t agree that’s an accurate assessment. Thank you.

My understanding is that they have 10 years to decide whether they’re going to draw down, and I think they’re probably about two or three years away from the 10 years.

Minister Valcourt indicated that although he’d been a federal Minister in previous governments, he’s never had the opportunity to visit the Northwest Territories and that he was going to visit. At the first opportunity he’d be up here in the Northwest Territories.

It was not our intention to make it a public document. We had shared it with committee and asked committee to submit their priority areas, which we were pleased to get feedback from committee. But as of now it is not our intention to make it public. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I think we’re getting hung up on semantics, but the results will be the same. Thank you.

That’s correct.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We had a very good meeting with the new Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, the Honourable Bernard Valcourt. We talked about quite a number of items. First and foremost, we discussed devolution. We discussed mining opportunities in the Northwest Territories. We discussed oil and gas. We talked about the negotiation of self-government and land claims agreements. We talked about trans-boundary water. We talked about the Dehcho First Nations and the bilateral process that we were both working on to advance on land issues. It was a very worthwhile...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On average, it’s about six a year.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member can look forward to seeing our draft communication strategy and I don’t agree with his assessment that nobody has been in contact with anybody else that is not part of an Aboriginal government. Thank you, Mr. Chair.