Thank you, Mr. Chair. How would we work with Indigenous organizations collaboratively in the life of the Assembly in years to come? First of all, my portfolios all based greatly around economic development, and our commitment is to work to help support the growth of Aboriginal governments and Aboriginal people, and also help them build capacity. These are very important to the people of the Northwest Territories, in particular, Aboriginal organizations going forward because we need these types of supports and capacity going forward to make a better Northwest Territories for everybody, and concluding particularly Aboriginal governments and their people in their regions. My department is working very hard on these sorts of things, and we will continue to do that.

I think one of the other things that we need to do collaboratively with Aboriginal governments and people in the Northwest Territories is collaboration around federal issues. Our issues sometimes do not exactly match up with theirs, and in a lot of cases, they do. They have particular issues around some federal issues that we need to work with them collaboratively moving things forward along with the federal government. I think that will continue on well past this Assembly because every federal government has their own agenda going forward.

That being said, it comes back to some of the stuff we have already talked about today. We need to help some of these Aboriginal governments settle their land claims, get on with self-government, get those concluded so they can bring certainty to their organizations and their people and to continue to work on the betterment of residents in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.