Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is important to acknowledge, as well, the incredible work of the staff, Liz Snider and Melody Morrison, George Braden, during the time he was engaged on that as well, Gabriela Sparling. There are so many of the staff that were involved in helping us get through this exercise. We'll thank them in due course. I just wanted to acknowledge them. The $60 million was offered up as a short-term revenue to bridge us to the point where we will look at long-term solutions and the Prime Minister, as I said, asked Alex Himelfarb, the Clerk of the Privy Council, to look at a process that would adjust the funding inadequacies between the federal government and this government. The difficulties are created by per capita funding and to find some remedies in the next couple of months and report back to us on how we can address that. Hopefully, we will not have to have a whole series of battles every time federal funding and programs are made available across this country that would see us receive only a marginal amount because of our small population. So that's the reason for it. The Prime Minister and Mr. Himelfarb indicated yesterday morning it is a floor, so it's a minimum amount at this time. We are going to look at ways of enhancing that and, in any case, it is for the short term.

The important thing to acknowledge here, which I tried to do yesterday, is we are on good speaking terms again with the Prime Minister's office, with Anne McLellan, who has agreed to come up in the last two weeks of March to visit and see for herself the circumstances and unique challenge of providing services to people in the North, in particular in the area of health and social services. We will report back to the Prime Minster who says he knows all that already. Just to acknowledge that one of the things we've achieved and captured, which is essential for us, which is a good relationship with the Government of Canada, the federal government, and we have that with the Prime Minister continuing to work with us and having Minister Manley pay some attention to this, to work with our Minister of Finance Joe Handley and the relationship and attention of Anne McLellan to work on this issue with us as well. Thank you.