Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, to try and get efficiency, to streamline and look at the different government initiatives that are similar, especially to address the aboriginal relationship issue, there are different fronts there. We, as a government, know this territory with Aboriginal Affairs. We are specifically involved in land claims and self-government negotiations and the implementation of it, especially the land claims that have been signed. We do that function as Aboriginal Affairs.

There are other initiatives. For example, the continuing dialogue with different aboriginal governments. As the Government of the Northwest Territories to the different aboriginal governments, it is outside the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. There is the intergovernmental forum. That is there. That is outside the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. However, it is more of a government to government type of arrangement. As a result, it is with the Executive because of the intergovernmental nature of the relationship.

That forum is a very important process we are working towards. Hopefully it happens in the next two or three months.

There is in the area of community regional development, which is within the Executive, a need, from my view on that and how it relates to Aboriginal Affairs. It is at the community level in the different regions where land claims and self-government arrangements are being negotiated. Once these are concluded, there is going to be a new relationship out there between the municipal governments and the aboriginal governments. We need to start focusing on it and seeing how this is going to be handled in the future.

There is a need for that. I think basically the community-regional sectors for better communications between our different departments at the regional level and in the communities.

There is the relationship with the aboriginal and community governments that are out in the communities as well. To amalgamate it into one, we really have to take a good close look at how that could be done. We probably have to do some sort of a functional type of review in order to do that. Thank you.