Mr. Duncan, I can't say there are any with respect to the Northwest Territories government. They obviously, as you know, are looking for devolution to occur, so that they get more control of the process in the north. I did spend some time with them, and that's their main pitch, because they believe those decisions should be made in the north.
With respect to aboriginal communities, they would have to cooperate on recommendations I've made. I think almost any of them would require perhaps not that the aboriginal community take the first step, but obviously they would have to agree to cooperate. If amendments were going to be made to the land claims agreements, obviously they would have to be involved very much in that process.
My assignment was to make recommendations to the federal government, but obviously, as I point out in the report, there has to be some cooperation from the different parties throughout the agreement.
This might be a good time, if I may, Mr. Duncan, just to jump off on that point.
If you look at the restructuring recommendations that were made, restructuring option A would, I believe, require changes to the land claim agreements, or very serious negotiations up to and perhaps including changes. Option B was something a little less than that, in that you turn the local boards into administrative bodies with no quasi-judicial component—that would be handled by the central board—with the notion that, depending on how this worked, eventually you would get to the point of option A in any event. I just wanted to make sure we understood that there were two separate options.