Mr. Speaker, I did meet with the aboriginal groups at 10:30 this morning on the issue of trying to reach an arrangement with them so that we can jointly move forward to the federal government to quickly transfer the responsibility for minerals, oil and gas to this government.

There was some concern raised by a number of the groups about a much clearer definition of self-government, and Mr. Kakfwi has addressed that with the groups and will address it again tomorrow. I have indicated to them that, from my perspective anyway, there has to be some closure to the discussion. At some point, we have to get on with the negotiations.

The majority of the groups in the room have agreed to continue to work on Tuesday, what we call the working group, to see if an accommodation can be made in terms of some of the wording and some of the changes they want for the draft accord that was put before them on April 7th. I am optimistic that, while we may not have everyone at that table, we will have some, and I have indicated to them that an arrangement has to be made by June 30th. There is no further extension beyond June 30th. Thank you.