Thank you. I believe a number of regions have some clear ideas as to how they see their regions operating and how government should function at the regional level. We know these vary as you go up and down the valley.
We also know that in some cases, the topic of self-government negotiations, as is the case in the Dogrib area as well as in the Beaufort Delta, is also an aspiration of the Deh Cho to find a way to become self-governing within their own region. Although we are not aware of the nature and the form that might take.
Again, we do not want to make any moves that would have implications we had not thought of beforehand. We are primarily asking for a paper to go to myself and then to Cabinet that would scope out the realities as we see them out there and identify some of the issues we have to take into account when we are looking at this merging political landscape.
We need to know what the financial implications are. We need to know how we can meet our needs as a government, as a central government meeting the needs of community regional governments, plus respect the self-government negotiations that are going on. Once we have a paper like that which puts it all together, it will be shared.
We are not going to impose anything on the regions. The regions have profoundly exerted pressure on our government to act. We are preparing to do that. It is not like we are trying to impose anything. There has been tremendous pressure on us to act and we are doing that. Thank you.