The Chiefs of Ontario maintains its position opposing the Nault Governance Initiative in accordance with Resolutions 02/01 and 01/40.

1. In conformity with the Halifax Resolution, a national AFN technical committee was established in August to develop a Rights Based Work Plan. A representative of the BC Vice Chief participated. The committee produced a strong and positive Work Plan that was endorsed by the AFN Executive and submitted to INAC on September 7.
   
   
2. The AFN Work Plan was rejected by the Minister on September 20, albeit in diplomatic terms. According to the Halifax Resolution, two things should then have occurred, i.e. (1) a Special Assembly, and (2) resistance to the Nault Initiative. Instead, the BC Vice Chief and INAC produced a new Workplan essentially endorsing the Nault Initiative.
   
   
3. The BC Region has dismissed the AFN Work Plan of September 7 as a creation of technicians who were out of touch with the AFN Executive. As outlined above, that critique is unjustified.
   
   
4. The AFN Work Plan of September 7 was Rights Based and was consistent with the Halifax Resolution. That is why it was rejected by INAC. The Penultimate Work Plan endorses the Nault Initiative, under the cover of some meaningless work on other issues. That is why it is so desperately supported by Minister Nault.