Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, now that there's new leadership at the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, my question is for our Premier. And has the Premier reached out and taken steps to renew that -- or his relationship and our relationship with Inuvialuit Regional Corporation? Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Inuvik Boot Lake. Mr. Premier.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I have. I am familiar -- I know Chair Elias from my previous role as education, culture and employment Minister when we were working on the school in his community, and so I made a number of trips up there and have had many conversations with him over the phone and in his house, so we're very familiar with each other. So when he was elected, I reached out to him that night, congratulated him, and I've been giving him a bit of space because I know how much information there is to absorb right at the beginning of that term. But we did reach out, requested a meeting and, yeah, so we've started that relationship. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's good to know. So when, then, Mr. Speaker, will the Premier be actually sitting down at a meeting with leadership from the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So we actually had meetings scheduled yesterday but the chair was weathered in, so he could not make it down; however, we were able to meet with director Gillis as well as a senior advisor, and there was -- it was almost like speed dating, where I met with him first and then they met with every other Minister throughout the day. So it was -- they were great meetings. There was a lot of excitement generated, and I can tell that it's going to be a strong and productive relationship. Thank you.
Final supplementary. Member from Inuvik Boot Lake.
Yeah, that's great, Mr. Speaker. And thank you for that. So is the Premier able to maybe share some of that information he had and some of the topics that were discussed with director Gillis and Ms. Darling as well? I noticed that Ms. Darling was also in the building yesterday. Maybe there was something around LNG. But can he share that with us, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will start with the LNG piece. And I've been vocal about the moratorium in the Beaufort Delta and -- or in the Arctic Ocean as well as the potential for LNG in the Beaufort Delta, and so I wanted to make sure that the position I was taking wasn't at odds with the new leadership at IRC. And I won't speak for IRC on their position on that, but I wanted to make sure that that conversation was had right off the bat so going forward, I am not saying anything out of turn. We also spoke about the MOU between our two governments. So we have MOUs with a number of different Indigenous governments across the territory, and those guide when we meet, how we communicate, and they facilitate the annual or biannual meetings that we have with Indigenous governments. So we spoke about that and the desire on both our parts to renew that and add some unique elements in there that I think actually might make them very productive meetings, very business-oriented meetings. I can't speak for the rest of the Cabinet, but I am looking forward to getting a debrief on all of those conversations as well. But, you know, the meetings were about half an hour. We could have gone two, three hours each Minister, I think. They were very good meetings. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Premier. Oral questions. Member from Yellowknife North.
