Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Denesuline First Nations of northern Saskatchewan, in the communities of Fond du Lac and Black Lake and Hatchet Lake, have apparently taken the federal government to court a while back and through discussions, the federal government agreed to negotiate land resources with them. This allowed them to set aside their court case so they could get into formal negotiations. This came to our attention recently and there was a delegation that travelled here to the Northwest Territories. I met them. I met the leaders of the Athabasca Denesuline here a couple of weeks ago. They also did meet with the Akaitcho First Nation chiefs, I believe, to let them know of their intentions. I did have a series of meetings with the officials in the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, with the delegations, as well as a federal representative that was there.
What happened is Canada has signed an MOU, a negotiations framework, with the Athabasca Denesuline to deal with the Athabasca Denesuline treaty and aboriginal rights in the Northwest Territories. This is something that just came to light very recently. We got wind of it about a month or so ago. So this is something that has been developing between the Denesuline and Canada I guess for some time, but it was just brought to our attention and we are trying to deal with it. It is a new issue that we have to deal with. I do not know if it is a diversion or whatever, but there is an official process that is underway between Canada and the Denesuline. Thank you.