On December 1, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun v. Government of Yukon that the Yukon government had acted improperly when it failed to consult any of the First Nations prior to adopting a final plan for the Peel Watershed that made substantial changes to the previously proposed plan and which increased access and development in the area. The Court held that the Yukon government did not act in accordance with the 1993 Umbrella Final Agreement that had created a land-use planning process for agreements between the Yukon government, the Canadian government, and the Council for Yukon Indians, which represent the First Nations. The agreements “recognize the traditional territories of the First Nations in the Yukon portion of the Peel Watershed and their right to participate in the management of public resources in that area” and the Umbrella Final Agreement gives the First Nations the right to “approve, reject, or modify the Final Recommended Plan after consultation.” The Court found that “Yukon did not have the authority to make the extensive changes that it made to the Final Recommended Plan,” quashed Yukon’s approval of its plan, and returned “the parties to the stage in the land use plan approval process where Yukon could ‘approve, reject or modify’ the Final Recommended Plan after consultation.”