Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm aware that one of the departments, Health and Social Services, is in fact doing some work -- unless that's been halted -- in the area of realigning itself with self-government discretion in the Beaufort-Delta region. I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that the negotiators in the Beaufort-Delta are responding quite negatively to the fact that they feel this government has overstepped its boundaries in addressing that.
My concern comes out of the financial end. If we're expending what little resources we have available to ourselves to realign in advance of self-government going ahead, then we're already spending our money, and why would the federal government come back and reimburse us? We already know the federal government has talked about giving us back our incremental costs, but there hasn't been agreement to what would be considered incremental costs. So that's why I ask these questions. Under directorate here it states that this body provides advice to other departments responsible for the implementation of comprehensive claims and so on. That's why I ask the question. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.