Mr. Speaker, I think that there is a desire in everybody, including this House and certainly our partners in the division issue, NTI, that we would like to see more aboriginal content to the civil service, particularly at the senior management level. I think it would be fair to say that we have not been as successful as we should over the years. However, the position that we have taken with respect to headquarters staff is that there is some obligation, never mind the practicalities of having people that know the job, but there is some obligation for us to promote the fact that our staff in Yellowknife who would theoretically move to Nunavut in headquarters positions, should be given the priority in relationship to recruitment. It would have to be done as long as it was done in the context of article 23 of the claim which talks about the affirmative action requirements that the Nunavut government has to have; that is, it is expected that the new

Nunavut government's civil service would reflect the population. demographics, representation. Thank you, my colleague for Thebacha. It would represent the representative components of the populace in Nunavut. Thank you.