Mr. Speaker, we have regular communications between other governments and other Ministers from other jurisdictions across this country on a range of issues; for instance, on the proposed amendments to the Young Offenders Act, family law reform and other pieces of legislation plus proposed federal legislation. Often we are asked to consider taking joint or common positions with regard to specific issues. We don't always do it but we are often asked and sometimes we ask ourselves, for instance, to ask other governments to become allies with us on certain issues. In the end, it's a political decision that we make. For instance, in this case, there is a possible legal question to be brought by the provinces with regard to whether or not the federal government has the constitutional right to propose this law since the provincial governments feel that constitutionally it's their jurisdiction that should be handling firearms and the regulation of them. We are not an active partner in that strategy but again, on the aboriginal rights issue, there may be other provinces that will decide. They haven't decided at this time but they may very well decide to take an active approach to that question.

It's a flowing kind of development and we often poll our own counsel depending on what we think would be in the best interest of this government. Thank you.