Thank you, Madam Chair. I will just go through all these negotiated and sole source contracts, you had requested that. The Financial Management Board Secretariat has initiated modifications to the production of that quarterly report. For contracts over $5 thousand that have been awarded on a negotiated tender and sole-sourced bases. Copies of the reports for the first, second and third quarters in 96/97 are expected to be completed by the end of February 1997, and government officials have been asked to make sure that all new government contracts including wording, which would notify contractors in advance of the government's intention to make public for each contract, over $5 thousand, the name of the contractor, the value proposed in term on contract and whether the contract was tender/negotiated or sole-source. We do have clear policy on negotiated contracts through Cabinet so there is a policy on how to do a negotiated contract and reducing government regulations and policy. The reduction of the government regulation and policy to create a more favourable business climate is establish of one of the government strategies and preliminary work has commenced with a collection of some of the information and consideration of possible approaches. According to our schedule, the strategy for this work is to begin on April 1st, 1997.

Review of regional governments: At the present time, the number of responsibilities and the programs related to land and resources, have yet to be transferred from the federal government. These are matters the Land Claim negotiations have dealt with in that context. All the core management has been the preferred option in land claim negotiations. There may be room for transfer of some jurisdictions related to land and resources through self-government agreements and it is premature to be define any relation to what responsibilities might be transferred to community governments or regional governments because we are in that process already and we are into that process in good faith with our aboriginal partners in the north as well as the federal government, so it would be premature to comment on that at this time.

As far as the Ottawa office is concerned, we have three staff in the Ottawa office. The communications strategy should be able to take that to the Committee late next week and then to caucus as promised. So that just has to go to Cabinet. It is pretty well done. And I have the responsibility of that. Thank you.