Mr. Speaker, the federal government has been on record since 1981 as supporting the process that involves all people of the Northwest Territories in the constitutional development and the political future of the north. It has consistently supported and funded these processes. For the last few years, the federal government has again funded and supported this process. It has also been this government's position that we are partners with all the other aboriginal groups in this process. That is, we're not leading it, we're simply one member of a large team of people putting together our political future and our constitutional future in one process. The federal government is expected to continue to support this process, to believe in it -- at least the federal Minister has indicated that he supports the process, he supports the creation of a single territory, the creation of a public aboriginal government for all people of the Northwest Territories -- and we fully expect him, very shortly, to come up with the $1 million that is required to continue this process. We don't expect anything different.

If the support, for whatever reason, should not be forthcoming, then we have to ask whether the federal government has had a last-minute change of heart; whether they no longer support the creation of a single territory; whether they no longer support the creation of a public aboriginal government for all people of the territories; and whether they've had a change of heart that $1 million is not worth it, what the possibilities of the Constitutional Development Steering Committee holds for all people of Canada, let alone the Northwest Territories. Thank you.