Answer 1: I am surprised that people are still so interested in the outcome of that report. It was in 1977 that I completed it and I recommended that the wilderness areas in the Mackenzie Valley and the northern Yukon by preserved; and that land claims be settled in the Mackenzie Valley before any major pipeline was undertaken; and that the hunting, fishing and trapping lands of the Dene and Inuvialuit be protected.

It's taken 35 years to achieve most of that and that's why, I suppose, people are still interested. So I'm pleased about the impact of the report.

I made these recommendations. The government of Canada has adopted them and largely carried them out. So I think the aboriginal people of the north, the Dene and the Inuvialuit, are in a much better position than they would have been if the pipeline had been built 35 years ago.