Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To this report, "Strength at Two Levels". The region that I represent, the Kitikmeot, is new to this sort of ball game. We are what you would call different from the Dene people because just recently we moved from isolation to a community called Coppermine, and Bernard Harbour went dead; Reid Island went dead; so everyone moved to Coppermine. I would like to see this document go at a slower pace for us people who are new to the idea of self-government, because if we rush with this program, half the people will not understand what self-government is. How can we tackle issues -- with a birthrate higher than the rest of Canada -- if we are unable to sustain a livelihood for our younger people, our children who are growing up? And most important, if we are unable to deliver good services such as education at the post secondary level, matriculated students who will be well-schooled in the field of professionalism such as doctors, lawyers, town planners -- for me, this is the only solution, to realize self-government will become a reality sooner or later. I would like to see it come when I am still alive. I would like this government to take its time on it and not rush through it because we are looking at all kinds of situations, all kinds of dilemmas.

Canada is confused about the killing of Meech Lake, division, the Polar Commission and who knows what other commissions there will be. It is going to be very complicated to understand which way we are going. But I realize we have to work on this sort of government. I think it is a very good, positive way of bringing our people to govern their own concerns, to make their own decisions at the local level and not be too far removed nor to be dependent on bureaucrat positions to make our decisions which will affect us in the end. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.