Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The department has been involved, right from day one, in community transfer initiatives. In fact, we were the department that initiated the whole process back in the 1970s when we called it prime public authority. There is a long history to it and it had a lot of growing pains as it went along. Because we were unsuccessful as a department in our quest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was felt that it would be better if it were coordinated through a central or another department. All along, we've been very supportive and involved in the process.

But, we have two roles to play. We have one role where we advise the government about things that may work or may not work at the community level in community transfers. We also have a role to advise the community as well. We've been playing that role all along. From what I know from the regional level, most community meetings are attended by our superintendents. I've attended some meetings with some communities where we give advice on how best to do things and how to deal with transitional issues. There are still a lot of issues unresolved, but we're involved with all the issues in trying to help the community transfer committee a working group to try to resolve some of those. In fact, yesterday, I was meeting with the mayor and the groups in Inuvik, trying to make some suggestions on how best to structure themselves to receive some of the programs, so we are involved.