Mr. Speaker, the claim of the Inuit of the Eastern Arctic is guided by the TFN, is based on the premise that the question of division has been settled in 1982. The claim of the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut goes on the assumption that division is going to happen and that Nunavut is going to be created. The plebiscite on May 4th is simply a plebiscite that asks people of the NWT if they would support the boundary that would be attached to the plebiscite question, as the boundary that is acceptable to divide the NWT.
As a government we have not done any studies about what may happen if the plebiscite question results in a resounding no, because we also go on the assumption that the question, which is reflected in the plebiscite question, is seeking whether or not people would accept that boundary as a boundary to divide, not whether they support division or not.