What role does the provincial government play in monitoring Land and Resources Management Plan (LRMP) processes?
Dan Adamson – The provincial Cabinet is asking interested people on Haida Gwaii to make strategic level recommendations dealing with resources management. The provincial government gives some leeway in the process to allow LRMP participants to come up with locally created recommendations that fit local conditions and interests. At the same time, the Ministers have recognized that it is important to keep informed on how LRMP participants are dealing with various issues and interests. In the end, the Ministers want to approve a set of recommendations that the province can deliver on. So the province will want to look at how all the objectives and strategies fit within the legislation and policies. I think this kind of monitoring throughout the process is better than to leave it until a draft document is completed at the end of two years of table meetings. This way we can take it chunk by chunk and see how it’s going to work. If issues or concerns come up we can address each of them one a
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