Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I might suggest that it would be difficult to find any organization that would be willing to take on the administration of the NIHB Program under the current circumstances.

If we can iron out these difficulties with the federal government, we will continue to perform this function. If we cannot, I have committed in this House, and will commit again, that we would undertake to commence consultation with aboriginal beneficiaries immediately in order to ensure a smooth transition, even if it resulted in the federal government, if no aboriginal organizations were interested in it, giving the obvious required subsidy that has had to go into it in the past.

Even if the federal government were going to take it on and put structures in place to administer it, we would certainly be very attentive to a smooth transition and a consultation process with the beneficiaries. Thank you.