Mr. Chairman, my intention is to begin doing some of the preliminary work on negotiating a new formula beginning in 2002, early 2002. That will allow us essentially two years to negotiate a new agreement, providing the federal government is willing to sit at the table and begin discussions.

The issue of self-government is a complex one because there is only one of them that is basically finalized right now. There are two. The Dogrib one is probably close as well, but we do not know with certainty yet what the provisions will be with regard to the extent that they take over their own programs and therefore want their own money or what the incremental costs will be. Hopefully, we are not going to bear any of that. We have maintained the position that those should be covered by the federal government.

We do not know with certainty either whether any of the self-governments will want to negotiate their own arrangement with the federal government as opposed to doing it through the GNWT formula.

So it is difficult at this point to predict with any specific facts on what the impact will be.

I think one of the first things we will have to start doing in 2002 is begin to identify some of the issues that will have to be dealt with. Of course, self-government is a big one that the Member raises. It is the biggest unknown, the biggest question mark in my mind.

As well, we need to do some projecting on how fast we will proceed on resource revenue sharing because that will change it as well, if we get a lot of our own resources. That is about as specific as I can be at this time, Mr. Chairman.