Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question is to both Members and, as we are well aware, in the Northwest Territories every time we want to move ahead and every time we want to, for example, do devolution or do an economic strategy, do anything in the Northwest Territories, the major issue that comes to the front each time is aboriginal self-government and the inherent right of aboriginal people to have self-government.
I want to know from both Members what they will do to advance, in my region especially, the Treaty 8 land entitlement process, as well as the South Slave Metis Nation claim process. I would like to know also if they support the right of aboriginal peoples to make the choice of how they would like to govern themselves. I know that the government has always said that they support a partnership as well as I do, but do those aboriginal groups have the right to chose between partnership and parallel systems? Thank you.