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By Gurston Dacks
Six experts on northern Canadian matters study the move of strength from the government to the governments of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Land claims, aboriginal self-government, department of the NWT, the territorial governments' pursuit of fuller attractiveness in Canadian federalism and devolution all engage in complicated methods. This e-book makes the easiest experience of the complicated procedures underway within the Canadian north.
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In addition to his role as the territorial chief executive, the Commissioner also directed the federal administration by virtue of an additional appointment as Controller of the Yukon. 5 Just as the gold rush had made necessary some form of territorial institutions, its eventual decline exposed them to review and retreat. Yukon Act amendments empowered Ottawa to abolish the Commissioner's position and the Council if necessary. Political resistance by the resident population led Ottawa to reverse a 1918 plan to restore an appointed Council, though it could not prevent the reduction in the number of elected members from ten to three.
Only over the past decade has this relationship been cultivated at other than the administrative plane. Both the regional councils and the aboriginal claims machinery point toward very interesting experiments in executive decision making. This must remain tentative, however, since the present stance of the GNWT is to eliminate the regional bodies in the rationalizing sweep of the Prime Public Authority concept. Similarly the joint management phenomenon faces major challenges as it moves from the agreement-in-principle stage to the final agreement stage of the claims settlement process.
22 In a related move, the Council began to study the comparative financial standing of the NWT as a territory and as a province, yielding the conclusion that "the Northwest Territories as a province in 1974/75 would still be in a position of requiring major deficit financing. "*3 The implications of resource mega-projects on 30 Politics by Remote Control:... territorial fiscal capacity were also closely observed. "24 While it would be wrong to conclude that the Council was ever of a single mind on such issues, the hegemonic segment during these years was evidently the one promoting provincial expansionism.