I think it is important to try to clarify for everybody's benefit that again, I want to say that this plan is a transition plan. I know we have said that until we are, as they say, blue in the face. The bottom line is that we need to reach an appropriate compromise with our partners. I cannot impose this on anybody. We are just providing this advice to the Interim Commissioner. We tried to illustrate the magnitude of the shortfall in the dollars and the mammoth task that we have before us in the next 18 months. I cannot say to my honourable colleague from Arviat whether or not that is what they are going to do. That is really up to the Interim Commissioner and up to the federal government to identify those dollars to get that done. It seems like a reasonable approach that he is suggesting. I certainly would be one that would support it.

The bottom line is that we are just one player and why I am sort of a bit anxious to try and see the Interim Commissioner, who called the meeting, is to see if he has a plan. He has it there. I hope there are some similarities, some parallels, to what we are saying. We need to sit down and come to a compromise to assist him in moving forward, if he so wishes. We need to sit down on the fiscal table and that is important to the decentralized model that the money has been now identified, that we have identified it anyway, in our best costs and see if that money is there so we can move forward. But I have to tell you, what we are saying is, the draft transition plan deals specifically with the steps that are required to ensure that decentralization proceeds. Let me repeat that, because I know that is a big issue in the eastern Arctic. The draft transition plan deals specifically with the steps that are required to ensure that decentralization proceeds. It includes an estimate of approximately $18 million as a one time associated cost for decentralization. In our view, this information will be critical to the office of the Interim Commissioner and the future Nunavut government to ensure that decentralization occurs as quickly and efficiently as possible. I do not know how more to say it.

We spent a great deal of time crafting the statement and a sincere effort to try to answer some of the concerns that we feel are legitimate and would be out there. I think the other thing about the plan, and Mr. Picco talked about it earlier, the plan is a guide for action. It is not a perfect document. It does not contain all the answers. But it is on the table for debate. The next two and three weeks are going to be critical as we sit down in the partnership with the federal government and NTI and the Interim Commissioner to reach a consensus on what we are going to do, who is going to do it, who is going to pay for it and move on. I think that is really what it boils down to for me. It is reaching a compromise with all the parties as to what we are going to do. It may not be this model. I do not know. I think this is one of the better pieces of work I have seen come out of Mr. Voytilla's shop in a long, long time. Not that lots of stuff does not measure up well, Lew, but this is a good piece of work. I better be careful, because they will probably want more money. It is a good pragmatic report that shows the steps that are necessary to get the fundamental needs of a new government in place. That is all. It does not determine what the new ideology or how education or how health care or how economic development is going to adjust or how this is going to be developed. It just puts the essential ingredients in place. I would hope that the parties would see some value in this report. We take out of it what they see as value. Put aside what they do not. Then all of us come to an agreement on what we can accomplish, who is going to do it, and at the end of the day, make sure the federal government has sufficient dollars in the process to pay for it. That is all. Thank you.