Mr. Speaker, yes, I think the term "package" was put upon this arrangement by the Standing Committee on Finance. The package arrangement concerned a number of things: it concerned the health billings dispute, the grants in lieu of taxes and a number of outstanding issues that we had with the federal government that we wanted to clear up. We have been nibbling away at those negotiations and coming to some agreements with Canada. The outstanding issues in the package are what happens at the time of division with the formula. Will there be incremental funding available at the time of division and can the formula

deliver that incremental kind of funding? Can we sort out the issue of the northern accord and any other transfers that may come to us and have them not affect us in an adverse fashion. All those things have yet to be worked out. We have managed to settle some of those small things along the way. Health billings is not small, but it is one of the things we had to get by.

In the next round of negotiations, which will occur some time after I meet with Mr. Martin, we will be trying to say to them that this package should be changed in these particular ways to reflect these particular concerns. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.