PAS Candidate Area Working Groups
Candidate Area Working Groups are usually set up once an area has been sponsored for protection at Step 3 of the PAS process. Working groups help evaluate the candidate area and make recommendations about the future status and management of the area. For more details on the working group process, click here.
Edéhzhíe Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair: Joan Antoine, Deh Cho First Nations
- Established: June 2002
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Dehcho First Nations
- Łíídlį Kų́ę́ First Nation
- Pehdzeh Ki First Nation
- Jean Marie River First Nation
- Deh Gah Got'ie First Nation
- Tłįchǫ Government
- Behchokǫ̀ Community Government
- Whatì Community Government
- Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Environment and Natural Resources, GNWT
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- World Wildlife Fund
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
- NWT Chamber of Mines
Sambaa K’e Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair: Dennis Deneron, Sambaa K’e First Nation
- Established: January 2007
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Sambaa K'e First Nation
- Dehcho First Nations
- Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Environment and Natural Resources, GNWT
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
Ts’ude niline Tu’eyeta Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair: Isidore Manuel, Yamoga Land Corporation
- Established: June 2007
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Yamoga Land Corporation
- Fort Good Hope Métis Land Corporation
- Fort Good Hope Renewable Resource Council
- K’asho Got’ine Dene Band
- Elder representative
- Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Environment and Natural Resources, GNWT
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Association of Mackenzie Mountain Outfitters
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
Other protected area proposals
Parks Canada is working with communities on two new national park proposals (Nááts’ihch’oh and East Arm) and one national park expansion (Nahanni). These processes are guided by groups similar to PAS candidate area working groups. Each differs slightly because of land claim/treaty entitlement or similar processes. Nááts’ihch’oh is guided by the Sahtu Dene and Métis Comprehensive Claim Agreement. Shúhtagot'ine Néné will be similarly constituted. Nahanni is being negotiated in the context of the Dehcho Treaty Entitlement Process. East Arm is being negotiated in the context of ongoing discussions with the Akaitcho/Treaty 8 and the Northwest Territory Métis Nation.
