Mr. Speaker, the committee of political leaders, which is made up of the different aboriginal organizations in the western territory, includes the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the Gwich'in Tribal Council, the Sahtu Tribal Council, the Dogrib Tribal Council. I believe the Deh Cho Regional Council will also be involved, as well as the Treaty 8 through the Dene Nation, the Metis Association, as well as Members of this Legislative Assembly who come from the western part of the territory. They are all in agreement that we have to do some work to prepare for division. All of us must make the effort to do what we can to see if we can come up with a constitution which could be embraced by all groups for a government of the western part of the territory.
As a Minister I have been working with this group for some years. Recently, we have developed a work plan which is, at this time, being finalized and there is some money being requested, which again, should be finalized in the next week or so. This will allow the work which has been defined by these different groups to begin as soon as possible. The actual work, as groups have seen it, has been defined collectively but there has been no agreement on how to communicate it to the different groups. I have gone on the assumption that each participant will ensure that their constituents or their members will hear from them directly. I have not been asked, or I have not taken it upon myself, to come up with some release that would explain it, what I see as the work. It is something that could be done, but I could suffer the wrath of some of the political leaders if I do not word it properly. I have not been asked and I have not taken the initiative to do something like this. Thank you.