Mr. Speaker, I did not come away with a certified cheque, if that is what the Member is asking. I think with regard to the formula funding, there is a recognition at Finance, and I would stress that I was not talking to the Department of Finance, but there is a recognition at the Department of Finance that perhaps the bite that was put on a couple of years ago has really seriously hurt the funding agreement with Canada.

With regard to the health billing issue, Mr. Siddon and I were at odds, and there seems to be some discrepancy between our position and the federal government position with regard to the billing process. Mr. Siddon's officials advise him that the GNWT is double billing and we maintain that we are not double billing. So there was a meeting this morning between the Government Leader, myself and Mr. Whitford and officials in regard to what to do now; and we have placed, at noon, a new position before the Department of Indian Affairs, and. I would hope we would receive a response tomorrow.

In the area of the grants in lieu, again the federal government's position is that they would certainly pay grants in lieu on land set aside for aboriginal people as long as they were in control of those lands and we had not placed any buildings upon them. But their position on lands that we have allowed people to build HAP houses on or build their own houses, is that the federal government believes it is now our responsibility. So we are still at loggerheads on that one, although Mr. Siddon was told, in no uncertain terms, that unless we were able to resolve these differences, we would pursue a course of action.