I respect the fact that not all aboriginal groups are on a level playing field and there are political differences between claims and inherent rights. I am not totally qualified to speak on that issue. I do have an obligation as the Finance Minister, along with my colleagues, to move forward on some of these initiatives. We will move forward on them, sensitive to the political realities we all live in. Part of that is, there is not necessarily unanimity within the constituency at large, on issues like non-renewable resources, tax windows, royalties, et cetera. I have an obligation as my colleagues do, to move forward on this initiative and to provide where we can discussions that will unfold with respect to a sharing of the revenues, whether it is royalties or taxes that come from the resources, that are currently, if you take diamonds, which are currently being taken out of this country.

If I may, just for clarity purposes, remind the Members that out of the one diamond mine, and I sometimes think myself included, we are sometimes too preoccupied with diamonds. There is a huge gas and oil find out there as well, but in the diamond mine alone, there is $4.4 billion in my numbers worth of royalties and taxes in which there is little or no benefits coming to either this government, more importantly to aboriginal governments, or more importantly to the people we represent. We have an obligation and responsibility to move forward on this initiative. I believe we have a political will at the federal level to at least sit down and discuss it. It is certainly our intention to ensure all the stakeholders are part and parcel of our discussions at the end of the day. Thank you.