Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This whole area of Northern Accord is extremely important to a lot of people in the north, especially aboriginal people who have been negotiating land claims and so forth. Basically this is what it is based on, land and resources.

This Northern Accord deals specifically with resources on the land, and where I come from, the region that I represent, they are very much interested in this whole aspect of it. It seems to me that there is very little information of exactly what this Northern Accord is going to look like. I knew that the First Nations were party to the Northern Accord at one time and I was wondering how much involvement do the aboriginal groups have in these negotiations at this present time? Thank you.