Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the government has been working with the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs over the last two years to develop a dialogue with the different community leaders, aboriginal regional leaders, as well as the Aboriginal Summit in establishing the Intergovernmental Forum. We are showing our support as much as we can behind the different negotiating tables and forums up and down the Mackenzie Valley, as well as supporting the economic aspirations of the different communities and the aboriginal groups.

The relationship has been good. I feel that while there are always differences in perspectives, the overall relationships with the aboriginal groups have been an improvement in the last couple of years over the way it was previous to that. I think it is a compliment to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Cabinet and Members of the Legislature, that this is the current sentiment that prevails with the aboriginal leadership, generally speaking, up and down the Mackenzie Valley.