There's just one final concern I wanted to express. I realize that the Deh Cho isn't in a claims process, nor has it chosen to do so. But, Mr. Chairman, we do have a lot of claimant groups right now, from the Nunavut, the Inuvialuit, the Gwich'in, and the Sahtu. Those are all legitimate claims that have gone through all the legal hurdles. But, we have a situation where people are staking claims all over the north and they are doing that with disregard to whether they are in a claimant area or not.
The reasons the aboriginal organizations chose to do that was because of the alienation of their land, but I thought that issue would have been resolved by now. I see that people are staking claims and there is further alienation of the land. We are taking a position as if it doesn't exist, as if we don't have an issue here. I don't know whether claimant groups have an issue here, but I would think they do. The mining companies shouldn't be out there if those areas are part of the claimant areas or have been selected as claimant areas.
I'm wondering if the government has looked at this as an issue. If not, then maybe the claimant groups should. I don't think we should ignore it. Things are happening and they really bother me. I don't know why people aren't making an issue about it.