Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We've had two meetings with the aboriginal groups that are directly affected by the development of a mineral accord and oil and gas accord. We've asked them to give us their input with respect to the language that they want incorporated into the accord. I believe we're supposed to receive that by the end of March. There's a further meeting planned in the next two weeks. They've formed a small executive group that's going to represent the interests of the aboriginal groups in terms of the language required in this new legislation. My optimistic side says that we're going to hopefully reach an arrangement that will be satisfactory to all of us, including the current public government, and move reasonably expeditiously to make an arrangement with the federal government for the transfer of this

important responsibility which will then enable us to set the rules as to how industry, whether it's minerals or oil and gas, behaves in this part of the country. Thank you.