Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, everybody knows the history of this whole situation and the reality is that Justice de Weerdt did put conditions for us to try to comply with and, over a lot of debate, and over a lot of advice
and directions and so forth, we have had explained to us the decision as well as the ramifications of the decision and, if we not take any action, what does that also cause. I do not necessarily, and I do think Members of the Cabinet do not necessarily like the decision. However, there are certain conditions in there that we have to comply with. At this point in time, we have followed legal advice. I am not a lawyer, myself, and it is a complex issue now with the deadline for April 1st, as well as what does that mean for us if we do not comply with it. There are a lot of different implications if we do not do anything about it.
We have decided to take a course of action where we introduced Bill 15, it had gone to second reading, and what we want to do here is to try to find a political solution. I think this is the best approach. I think I have heard that when I travel in the communities, when I went to the Delta and the South Slave, as well as in the Deh Cho area, people want to have a political solution rather than having the court decide for us the constitutional future for us. Based on a lot of different decisions and many sleepless nights and looking in the mirror, and so forth, we have to make a decision. I think we want to make the decision that is right for people in the north, and I think the best decision would be to try to find a political solution. We have to buy some time and this is the course of action that we have taken. Thank you.