Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I was at the Tlicho initialling and I was asked to be a witness to the federal negotiator's initialling. I declined, that was not understood when the initialling was done. I was called up and, rather than set an unpleasant scene, I proceeded to be a witness to that.

Having said that, the Tlicho Agreement will see this government as a party and it is my expectation that the Deh Cho and the Akaitcho people will find acceptable solutions to the outstanding issues with the Tlicho people and that all parties will support the signing of the final agreement with the Tlicho people. It will be difficult but I expect that people will make best efforts and issues, as they have in every other instance in the past, be resolved to everybody's satisfaction. Thank you.