Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, yes, I believe in the aboriginal self-government position that this government has taken. There are provisions in the policy, now we will instruct our negotiators to sit down with the, for instance, the Treaty 8, Akaitcho territory leadership and the South Slave Metis to look at self-government, either it be a partnership model, or be a parallel system. These things have put to be in place with the western government's issue.
We have changed the policy so that it will accommodate them, because for many years, we have been negotiating self-government arrangements based on the inherent right to self-government with the federal government, which was to try to negotiate self-government arrangements through the public government system. We found out through the two and a half years of negotiations that is not the direction that First Nations want to go. If we truly believe in the inherent right to self-government, then they have the right to choose. It is their inherent right. We cannot tell them that, sure, we can negotiate self-government arrangements but you have got to do it through the public system. You cannot do that because that right is not there for us to direct them into what type of system of self-government they should choose. The choice is up to them. That is what they have been telling us all along, that we have the right to choose how we want to see ourselves and they want to have a working relationship with us. I believe that, as well, that even though they decide to take a parallel system, they will be in a position where they will be working with us as partners, because the reality is, we all live together here in the north. That is the position that I take on this one. I think I handled both questions. Thank you.