Thank you, Madam Speaker. It was actually a Finance Ministers' meeting, in which Mr. Martin had asked Mr. Masse to attend to talk to Finance Ministers about overlap in duplication. It involves areas of concern expressed by both levels of government, where we're both doing similar things. It involves the regulatory process. It involves the environment. It involves programs that are delivered by sometimes three levels of government: municipal; territorial or provincial; and, federal. It is hoped that after Mr. Masse has looked at this problem and gotten more comfortable with it, that individually, as provinces, territories and in some cases municipalities, we can agree on areas that do overlap, that do duplicate and we can come to some arrangement whereby the program would be delivered by one level of government and get some efficiency in the others. That was the gist. It was a get-to-know-you kind of meeting.

I have to write to Mr. Masse and give him our position with things that we see in the Northwest Territories that overlap and duplicate. Many of those things involve DIAND, of course, and the transfers of program responsibility that we have not yet received. I will be doing that, then Mr. Masse will respond and we'll see if we can work some of those issues out, Madam Speaker. Thank you.