What is the best approach to ensuring that New Brunswick's aboriginal people are given representation in the Legislative Assembly in a manner similar to the approach currently employed in the state of Maine' - that was the mandate of the 1991 Representation and Electoral Boundaries Commission in N.B. That Commission received briefs and held a number of meetings with aboriginal and non-aboriginal representatives. No one liked the Maine model, because the Native representatives do not have the right to vote. The Commission pointed to the New Zealand model as more attractive. The Commission called for more consultation with Native groups in formulating a better option than the Maine one and called on the Legislature's Select Committee of the Legislature to strike a joint committee of representatives of the Commission and the aboriginal community. The Committee rejected this suggestion, recommending instead that no further consultations with the aboriginal community concerning their representation in the Legislature be done unless such consultations were requested by the aboriginal community. The report of the 2003 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for N.B., does not mention that native peoples were involved in formulating it, but it recommended that the First Nations population vote be centralized into one electoral district, in Miramichi. First Nations Peoples living on reserve would then constitute 10% of eligible electors in the district, which would give them more leverage and encourage participation. Neither the First Nations peoples nor the non-Aboriginals liked the proposal and the Commission decided to drop it.