Madam Chair, I think I will deal with the questions in the reverse order. First of all, in terms of respecting the relationship that aboriginal governments have with Ottawa, we will fully respect that relationship and have no difficulty at all with it. We are not trying to say to Ottawa we are the government that you should deal with and then we will deal with the aboriginal governments at all. In fact, while I was in Ottawa, most of the Akaitcho and the Tlicho were well represented in Ottawa, holding their own meetings. I think that is healthy and it was good. The one thing that I would like to do, as the Member suggests, is make sure, as much as we can, that our messages are consistent.

Going to one of the questions that the Member asked is how do we engage people in this. I would like to say that at the close of the meeting on Tuesday, the Prime Minister offered to the Premiers that he would like to have the next First Ministers' meeting held next spring and that would be on national priorities where we would meet as a group of Premiers and the Prime Minister to determine what the national priorities are and what we have taken on. We've taken on the health issue, the financing issue. What should the next major issue be? Before that meeting takes place, I think we should have another meeting with northern leaders to be able to clarify what our priorities are and what we need to take forward to that Premiers'/Prime Minister meeting.

So we need to engage it. I think the northern leaders' meeting we had last year was a good forum for doing it. I have continued to meet as well, Madam Chair, with the aboriginal leaders on various issues. I've had a face-to-face meeting, I've had a teleconference meeting and I was going to have another meeting with them, but it was postponed a couple of weeks ago. We want to continue to work with them. When we come to issues like resource revenue sharing, then clearly we have to work very, very closely with the aboriginal governments and other people in the Territories because this is an issue that goes broader than just financing our government.

One of the issues when we talk about resource revenue sharing that we are going to face in Ottawa is they have to figure out how would they pay us for resource revenues from the extraction of non-renewable resources of land that is still federal land. The federal government owns the land and water in their terms legally and also has the sub-surface rights, not us. So they are grappling with that. How do they pay us royalties or share with us when we don't have any legal right to it? So that's why devolution is important to me that we need to complete devolution in order that we're then more like a province. We own the land and resources, but until then it's going to be a hard struggle for us to be successful on interim resource revenue sharing, in my view. It will take all of our negotiating skills. Thank you, Madam Chair.