Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Mackenzie Valley Metis Federation has not indicated at any time whether they are going to be seeking any funding. We do provide core funding to the Metis locals, which we do with the members of the South Slave Metis, as well as the North Slave Metis Alliance. They are members who are locals. We fund them. We core fund every Metis local. They are all the same. We core fund the Metis locals.
As for the North Slave Metis Alliance, they organized themselves here in the North Slave to be an entity. As well, the South Slave Metis are recognized and have worked out with the Akaitcho that they are separate, whereas the Mackenzie Valley Metis Federation are still getting themselves organized. I do not know where their focus is going to be. In the Deh Cho, which I am familiar with, the Metis and the Dene are together in the Akaitcho First Nations organizations. They are pursuing the Deh Cho process together. They are there together.
In the Sahtu, the Dene and Metis have settled their land claims together, so they have a land base and so forth there. The Deline is negotiating their self-government on their own. Up in the Mackenzie Delta, the Dene, the Gwich'in and the Metis have together settled their land claims, and together they are working out a self-government arrangement. I do not even know if they will organize similar to the North Slave Metis Alliance or the South Slave Metis Tribal Council, so it is difficult for me to answer. I will have to wait until they get themselves organized and evolved. If they do form, how they are going to form and why, and if they are going to be pursuing any funding. Thank you.