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Two of the commemorations were related to ethnocultural communities' history and one to Aboriginal history. As part of the agreement, the two governments are required to amend their respective offshore petroleum legislation to prohibit drilling on the island and out to one nautical mile. Several permits held by petroleum companies were amended to give this prohibition effect within their license areas.
Following the signing of the national park reserve establishment agreement i. Parks Canada secured the necessary authority to draft a bill to protect the national park reserve under the Act.
Parks Canada and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador continued to make significant progress in negotiation of a land transfer agreement to establish a national park reserve in the Mealy Mountains. Working collaboratively, both governments completed a legal description of the final external boundary while working to resolve several other surveying issues. Such an agreement is required under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement for any new national park in Nunavut.
Work was then initiated to secure the support of the new Nunavut government for the park and to ratify the agreement by the QIA. Work was also initiated to renew the interim land withdrawal which is scheduled to expire in Parks Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories GNWT initiated discussions on how they would work collaboratively with the devolution agreement coming into force in April The interim land withdrawal was renewed in March by the federal government in advance of devolution, but with the support of the GNWT.
