Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to the time restraints in negotiations, usually it is based on a couple of years and then that is the end of it. There have been negotiations going on in a lot of the eastern Arctic communities for a number of years. In regard to the Aklavik initiatives which they have been negotiating for almost over four years now, in which they have been trying to take over different responsibilities in the communities where it is one thing or another, they do not have the adequate resources or the individuals whom they do have, from the government side, do
not have the full mandate to make these decisions. It always has to come back to Yellowknife. So those are the types of initiatives that I am talking about, where there is a long time delay as to how these negotiations are happening. Yet we hear of other community empowerment initiatives where we are looking at devolving a lot of these authorities to regional bodies which want to block fund everything within a region in a short period of time. Why is there such a difference between those negotiations and the negotiations that have been going on in the past where communities are still trying to take on a lot of these initiatives, yet this government is looking at the whole idea of some sort of block funding arrangement regarding the Keewatin region?