Mr. Speaker, the thousands of civil servants within the Department of Indian Affairs have all suffered with the lobby that we have put on over the last ten years with this general scenario. The new Minister has been approached on two occasions. Once in December when the chairman of the Constitutional Development Steering Committee, Mr. Fred Koe, and myself presented the proposal to him in Ottawa. More recently, he was approached at the federal/provincial native affairs Ministers meeting in Toronto when we had a meeting with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Mr. Irwin was approached to seek an early response. Last Friday night in Edmonton, he mentioned that they would be responding to this proposal fairly soon. I did not seek to discuss it with him at that time, but he did indicate that they would be responding shortly, which is all that I asked for at the time. He has been lobbied on at least two occasions. Thank you.