Colleagues, oral questions. Member from Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am going to continue the pile-on of the Premier today. I promise we did not plan this in our House planning.
Mr. Speaker, it's noted in the 2026-2027 business plan update that EIA will be coordinating the seven-year review of the NWT intergovernmental agreement on lands and resources management. Can the Premier speak to how process timelines will be addressed during this review? Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Frame Lake. Mr. Premier.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the review is going to look at the governance system, how well is our governance system functioning, examining the period from signing of devolution until 2023. We're going to look at what works well, what's been working well, what doesn't work well, what lessons have been learned, are the current processes sufficient, in particular in terms of how we deal with roadblocks when we run into roadblocks, are we letting them linger too long at the working group without elevating them up to the officials or the political level. So it's definitely -- we're looking at the entire operations, how efficient it's been, how effective it's been. It's really the first big review. It's a seven-year review that was delayed a couple years, so it really is the first big substantive review of devolution. We want to make sure we examine all of these serious issues. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I note in their 2023 report on the Forest Act, the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment made a number of recommendations related to the co-drafting process and how it relates to the public and committee. Can the Premier confirm these recommendations will be reviewed and addressed by the IGCS committee conducting the intergovernmental agreement review? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The IGCS is not going to review itself, or the IGC. It's going to be put out to tender and so there will be a contractor contracted to do the review, and certainly we can bring that to their attention. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Premier. Final supplementary. Member from Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the commitment to bring it to the attention, and that's news to me. It's a bit different than what was communicated in the business plan, so I appreciate getting that news, and we'll be inquiring further about that as well.
Mr. Speaker, the standing committee also recommended that the co-drafting process needs additional resources to proceed efficiently. Will those recommendations be responded to by the government as part of the intergovernmental agreement review? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So what will be looked at in the review is what I mentioned earlier, and I can see how the funding piece would play into that, but we are not waiting for a review to look at how we have Indigenous governments participate or how they're funded to participate in this process. Just the other day -- you know, it could have been yesterday, maybe the day before -- we were down at PDAC, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's conference, the largest mining conference in the world, where the Minister of Environment and Climate Change signed a memorandum of understanding with the Minister of CIRNAC on our regulatory system. One of the goals of that MOU is to explore opportunities to align federal and territorial funding mechanisms to support the meaningful participation of Indigenous peoples and Northerners in impact assessment and regulatory processes. So that's only one of the objectives of the MOU. We're also looking at how we do everything. And so what the Member is asking about, that's already something that we're on top of. I will leave it there. Thanks, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Premier. Oral questions. Member for Yellowknife Centre.
