RECOMMENDATION
	His Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled ``An Act providing for the ratification and the bringing into effect of the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management''.
	SUMMARY
	This enactment ratifies and brings into effect the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management concluded between certain first nations and Her Majesty in right of Canada. It provides for the establishment of an alternative land management regime that gives first nations community control over the lands and resources within their reserves. It also gives first nations the power to enact laws respecting interests in and licences in relation to first nation land and respecting the development, conservation, protection, management, use and possession of that land.
	The enactment provides for a community approval process that enables first nation members to vote on a proposed land code and an individual agreement between the first nation and Her Majesty. The community approval process is monitored by a verifier jointly appointed by the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the first nation.