I would just like to thank the Member for his good comments. I think there has been good work done by a great many people over the years. Certainly, there have been a great number of aboriginal leaders who have found the capacity to work well with each other, whether we are Metis, Dene or Inuvialuit. All of us have made a great effort to understand one another and to support the goals and objectives that each of us set out for ourselves.
I know that there are some difficulties, as always, with boundaries. The Member made reference to that in his comments. I can say that I've been involved with the settling of the Inuvialuit settlement area boundary and with the efforts that were made prior to it being finalized. I was aware of and directly involved in the talks between the Gwich'in and the Sahtu in settling their boundary. Certainly the big one, of course, is the boundary, one of the longest boundaries in the world I think, that Mr. Ningark refers to, the Nunavut boundary. It still needs to be revisited by the Inuit and the southern Dene who will come to some sort of agreement. In some cases, it left some hard feelings and feeling unresolved.
But, as the Member says, I think we've done remarkably well in the settling of boundaries considering the intense feeling all of us have for traditional lands. Where lands overlap and where contemporary and historical use overlap, the feeling intensifies tremendously and takes a long time to go away. We still have boundary talks pending between the Sahtu and the Dogrib, though that's been largely settled between the Sahtu and the Deh Cho, the Dogrib and the Deh Cho as well as the Treaty 8 people and their neighbours. The job with regard to settling boundaries, you might say is only half done. But, considering the implications and the difficulties, we've done remarkably well. Thank you.