Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The document that we discussed, the first recommendations, I am concerned about the wording. It states that, "we will be endorsing the whole package that was presented to us." Like I said yesterday, I do not feel comfortable with this package, and by endorsing it would mean to me that I fully understand it, and I fully accept it, and I am willing to go into my communities and explain this package to everybody there.
It is difficult to say that I endorse it on that basis. The content, the specific aspects of it, like the inherent right to self-government that I have been fighting for all of my political life, I fully support. Other aspects of it, in some areas, especially the economic aspect of it and the different things that are in there, it is difficult for me to say that I am fully comfortable with it and that I fully endorse it.
I guess it is due to a lack of information that I say this. If you could change the word in that first recommendation, maybe we could vote on it. I fully support a lot of the aspects of it, but there are some areas that are pretty grey for me right now, to say that I endorse the total package. I think the endorsement will happen by other people in the communities. Certainly, I will explain to people to the best of my ability, because the communities need to get all of this information as soon as possible.
I have been asked by a lot of people for documentation and information on the total package, the Charlottetown Accord. If you could change the wording of the first recommendation, I could probably vote on it.