Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, to develop a constitution for the west in the NWT here, we still have a long way to go. We are only now looking at going into the communities. We finally secured some funding from this government and the feds to put teams together and go into the communities and explain the package, and get some feedback. Hopefully, have a revision of the package by the spring, perhaps this summer. The idea here is to have the package for ratification in the fall sometime.

In the meantime, the Constitutional Working Group has been working with the federal officials, because we need them to be involved if ever we are to put changes to the NWT Act into the federal legislation. They have to be involved from the very beginning. They are involved now, and they are willing to participate as we look at revising the package. That it will be acceptable first to people in the North and it has to also be acceptable to the federal government before they agreed to go ahead and develop the legislation that will go through their Parliament.

As we all know, the federal government is going to be going into a federal election fairly soon. Maybe, as early as this spring, maybe in the fall we are told. We have to take that into consideration. If we say that there is a federal election by the fall, let us say October, I am not saying that is going to happen, I am just saying that it could happen. If we have documentation, that will have to be ready by then, and then once a new government gets in, we will be able to hopefully work with the new government that is in place to move ahead with legislation.

It is going to be sometime before, it will take about a year or so before we get through that process. We do not know. I have to tell the honourable Member that at this point and time, although we have discussed it quite thoroughly, it is still very much an unknown at this point in time. But we can only speculate that we look at some timeframes and we try to aim for that. Hopefully, we will have something in place by the time division happens. That window of opportunity is very narrow, and it is closing very rapidly. There are so many different players involved that it is going to be very hard to say right now that we are going to have a legislation ready to go for acceptance by division time. Thank you.