Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act — M-0.2 2
Definitions 2 The definitions in this section apply in this Act. Déline Agreement means the Déline Final Self-Government Agreement among the Déline First Nation Band, the Déline Land Corporation, the Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories, signed on February 18, 2015, including any amendments made to it, that is approved, given effect and declared valid by the Déline Final Self-Government Agreement Act . ( accord de Deline ) Déline Got’ine Government means the government established in accordance with chapter 3 of the Déline Agreement. ( gouvernement Gotine de Deline ) Déline lands means the lands whose title is vested in the Déline Got’ine Government in accordance with 21.2.1 of the Déline Agreement. ( terres de Deline ) Déline law has the meaning assigned by the definition DGG Law in chapter 1 of the Déline Agreement. ( loi de Deline ) deposit of waste means a deposit of waste in any waters in the Mackenzie Valley or in any other place under conditions in which the waste, or any other waste that results from the deposit of that waste, may enter any waters in the Mackenzie Valley. ( dépôt de déchets ) environment means the components of the Earth and includes (a) land, water and air, including all layers of the atmosphere; (b) all organic and inorganic matter and living organisms; and (c) the interacting natural systems that include components referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b). ( environnement ) federal Minister means the Minister of Northern Affairs. ( ministre fédéral ) first nation means the Gwich’in First Nation, the Sahtu First Nation or bodies representing other Dene or Metis of the North Slave, South Slave or Deh Cho region of the Mackenzie Valley, but does not include the Tlicho First Nation or the Tlicho Government. ( première nation ) Gwich’in Agreement means the Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement between Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada and the Gwich’in as represented by the Gwich’in Tribal Council, signed on April 22, 1992 and approved, given effect and declared valid by the Gwich’in Land Claim Settlement Act , as that Agreement is amended from time to time in accordance with its provisions. ( accord gwich’in ) Gwich’in First Nation means the Gwich’in as represented by the Gwich’in Tribal Council referred to in the Gwich’in Agreement or by any successor to it. ( première nation des Gwich’in ) harvesting , in relation to wildlife, means hunting, trapping or fishing activities carried on in conformity with a land claim agreement or, in respect of persons and places not subject to a land claim agreement, carried on pursuant to aboriginal or treaty rights. ( exploitation ) heritage resources means archaeological or historic sites, burial sites, artifacts and other objects of historical, cultural or religious significance, and historical or cultural records. ( ressources patrimoniales ) land claim agreement means the Gwich’in Agreement, the Sahtu Agreement or the Tlicho Agreement. ( accord de revendication ) local government means any local government established under the laws of the Northwest Territories, including a city, town, village, hamlet, charter community, settlement or government of a Tlicho community, whether incorporated or not, and includes the territorial government in the case where it is acting in the place of that local government in accordance with those laws. It also includes the Déline Got’ine Government in the case where it is exercising the jurisdiction and authority set out in 9.1 of the Déline Agreement. ( administration locale ) Mackenzie Valley means that part of the Northwest Territories bounded on the south by the 60th parallel of latitude, on the west by Yukon, on the north by the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, as defined in the Agreement given effect by the Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Claims Settlement Act , and on the east by the Nunavut Settlement Area, as defined in the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act , but does not include Wood Buffalo Nation