Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The federal government, in the last year, suggested that we should take a large framework approach to further devolution talks. So, we have been working on that. They have been insisting on it. They, I think, feel that, in view of division and what is going to take place in the creation of a Nunavut government, in the wake of land and water regimes being impacted by the regional claims, the prospects for oil and gas taking place again in the future and the many little issues that can prop up in these kinds of talks, they want the broad umbrella under which to capture all of these elements. So, they want a framework agreement.
We have always felt that it is fine to talk about that, but the most productive way to do things right now is just by dealing with specific issues. For instance, let us do land and water, or let's do oil and gas. Members will know that the former Prime Minister, Mr. Mulroney, personally signed an agreement saying that they would work on a northern accord and would have thrown his support behind it, a political accord that would have seen this government taking over oil and gas management. But for all his political weight, that never got finished. So, it is my view that we can continue. If the federal government says that is a precondition to specific talks going on, then that is the way we have to do it, since they are the other party. But, I'm also of the view that we should specifically move on individual transfer agreements if we can do it and if there is sufficient support of the aboriginal organizations to do so. I think between the two, we can get some things done. Thank you.