Thank you, Madam Speaker. What we have done initially is to establish our own task force to review our own programs. We have $192 million worth of social program funding that is expended in the Northwest Territories. We have to get a handle, first of all, about the picture that we have and the expenditures that we're making. Secondly, we have to get an indication from the communities as to where their priorities are. And part of the task force responsibility is to bring some sense to that.

The second portion to our initiative is to bring the federal process north with the standing committee and, secondly, we're meeting on an ongoing basis with federal officials to review their position in conjunction to our position, and to try to bring some sense to the issues that are being brought forward. They are, as the honourable Member has pointed out, very complex and very divided in terms of the provinces. What we need to do is to try to get some sense of what we're trying to accomplish.

There are already divisions being brought about by the federal initiative where they are dividing the aboriginal community and non-aboriginal community, the north versus the south, provinces versus the territories and province versus province. It is a very complex issue. We've been trying to ensure that we have a collective position, rather than a divided position.