Mr. Speaker, when I made that statement, I was going on the assumption that we would have had the main estimates passed through this House right now so that we could begin doing those things that we said we would do in the budget, on April 1st this year. So, I didn't realize that we were going to have this problem and that we were going to be past the deadline. I was probably being a little eager in saying that this would be in place by April 1st.

Mr. Speaker, there has yet to be an arrangement worked out with the Metis Nation with regards to how this is going to be handled. The Minister of Health has some very good ideas on how this can be handled. I would venture to suggest that, until such time as we get this issue passed through this House, there will not be retroactive payments to Metis people. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.