Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to make a few comments on the document, "Strength at Two Levels." As you all know, my name is in the report. I was involved from February until June in putting together the operation, organization and management portion of this report. I would just like to say that I did not see the final report until everybody else received it. I was not familiar with the final version to clear up our situation.

My understanding of this report was to make recommendations to the government as a blueprint for this new government on how to approach government programs and services into the communities. The intent of this document was to take it to the doorstep of the communities. The community government structure had a lot of concern about it during my involvement with the report because as a Dene coming from a community in the western part of the Northwest Territories -- we have difficulty in some communities where there are different structures. For example, in Fort Simpson there is a village council, a band council and a Metis local, so it is very difficult to figure out what programs and services go with which structure. The Constitutional Commission that is going around is there to address and try to clear up this problem. It coincides with this report. The intent of this document was not to describe what community self-government should look like, but rather to make recommendations on what should go into the communities rather than describing what the community should look like. I would like to leave it at this. Mahsi.