Thank you, Madam Chair. That issue certainly came up of getting it tangled up in the bureaucracy and, in fact, the Prime Minister himself referred to it as we don't want to get into bureaucratic morass, is what he had called it. So he's very aware of not letting this thing start to spin out of control here. Do we trust him? Do we work with him? I say yes, we haven't got a lot of choice. Has he delivered? I guess I'd differ with you if you say we haven't seen anything concrete because I tell you in the last month, it's been a lot of hard work, a lot of slugging from our side, but I think we got a lot on the health front that benefits the North greatly.

I'm pleased with what we achieved in September on the health front, both for ourselves, as government, and also for aboriginal governments. I also think that the arrangement we have now on the financing formula is a big step. It's not everything we want, but I tell you it's come a long way. Those two things specifically I think are more than what we have seen in years with other Prime Ministers. So yes, I'm going to work with Prime Minister Martin. I think he is delivering. He's not delivering everything at once and we wouldn't expect anybody to be able to do that.

I agree with Mr. Ramsay that we have to keep our hand on this ourselves and that's why we said the steering committee has to be the Prime Minister and ourselves. I intend to put whatever time is necessary to make it happen. Prime Minister Martin didn't walk into this one easily because I first talked to him about the need for a more strategic approach to northern development in January and his first question was how would this work and his statement to me was he did not want to get himself into a process that lead nowhere. So I'm going to work with him. I think he's delivering and I think we're much better off to work with him than to try to work against him. That's not going to get us anywhere. Thank you.