Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The federal government doesn't have a policy. We are trying to develop one for ourselves that will tell all groups, the federal government and the public, what we are going to do in the self-government negotiations; what mandate we will have in going into those talks. The federal government has no policy as such, so it is unable at this time to meet the demands of the Dogrib, for instance, who want to get into full-fledged self-

government negotiations. They simply can't do it. They are having full-blown discussions; what they call exploratory discussions. They are directing their officials to have exploratory talks about the visions or aspirations of aboriginal groups in these talks with a view that Ron Irwin will get Cabinet to move quickly to adopt a paper on self-government, particularly a position on inherent rights. We have no demands. We are simply trying to insist that, in order for negotiations to be orderly; in order for negotiations to have some focus, we all should have very clearly spelled-out expectations, so we can get on with the work and try to articulate self-government for our people.