Madam Speaker, the functions of the staff within the Ottawa office have been reviewed and it is still ongoing. We know that the constitutional focus is now non-existent, but there is still a major commitment by the Liberal government to look at trying to kick-start self-government discussions with aboriginal people across this country, on the assumption they wish to proceed and the assumption that the inherent right exists. It is somewhere in section 35 of the constitution. So we are prepared to and are monitoring the situation to see if, in fact, there may be some major work that is going to be required by our staff who were involved previously in the Charlottetown Accord negotiations.

There are developments with Quebec and Makivik Corporation with regard to negotiations on the offshore islands that Makivik is now laying some claim to include in their land claim, the northern Quebec claim. There is the suggestion that Quebec may by eyeing some of the islands in the James Bay/Hudson's Bay area to make the constitutional/legal/political argument that these should be within their jurisdiction, so we are giving some serious thought to monitoring that as well.

There is the ongoing work in the area of devolution, whether or not there is going to be a major initiative to continue and at least develop an overall framework with which devolution -- things like land, water and other jurisdictions, oil, gas, and minerals -- may be pursued. So there is, in fact, a lot of work that can be done by this office and those are some of the areas that we have identified. Thank you.