Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Members will recall that this initiative came from the First Ministers' Conference and it came from the Prime Minister and the respective Premiers. I was assigned the responsibility for overlap and duplication for the Government of the Northwest Territories and, of course, I was dealing with Marcel Masse. In fact, just last week, Mr. Speaker, the Premier wrote back to the Prime Minister and acknowledged that the first round of these exercises were concluded and now it was time to move on to a new area. I anticipate, some time in the next six weeks, being able to start a new round with the federal Minister, with a view to looking at some larger programs.

I think, Mr. Speaker, we were not allowed to go as large as we wanted to the first time around. There were things we couldn't get on the table. We were told, let's move along in a slow fashion and make some small bites first. At the next opportunity, though, we'll be suggesting much larger eliminations of overlap and duplication. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.