Mr. Speaker, the Member is right that you had to have attended one previous meeting, to be allowed within the regular assembly. There was some indication that there would be some rules waived to allow the Minister of Justice to attend. I am not sure whether that was done or not. However, in discussion with Mr. Kakfwi, the Minister responsible for Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development, he indicated that the process allowed a great deal of opportunity for lobbying and discussion outside the actual assembly, and he felt that there were opportunities there to get to know other people's views, because there were almost as many people outside as inside, in a lot of cases, in particular with certain subject matters.

So with that presentation to myself, I felt that their argument was adequate for me to say that if that was the case and there was an opportunity for that lobbying and getting to know other people and perhaps people who were doing the major part of the work that were not in the assembly itself, and then during breaks of the assembly, that this type of interaction was going to be of benefit to us. But at this point in time I do not know whether those rules would have been waived to allow him in, although Mr. Patterson felt fairly sure that they would be. But I would be prepared to come back and find out if that did happen.