Madam Chair, I can assure the Members that we are not at all going to try to negotiate devolution between the federal government and the territorial government. We will not go there. What we have done in going back to the last government is worked very closely with the Aboriginal Summit as the representative body or the body that represents the aboriginal leadership and try to work with the Aboriginal Summit and our government to negotiate a plan for how devolution would work. That has cost us a lot of time and money and the same with the aboriginal leadership.

Those who don't have settled claims have told me that they don't want to put priority on devolution. So rather than trying to just run over them with this exercise of devolution, I have proposed to this Assembly and to the aboriginal leaders that we carry on with devolution as it moves along slowly, but in the meantime lets work an interim resource revenue sharing arrangement that would enable resource revenues to be shared between the federal government, territorial government and aboriginal governments. This kind of arrangement would be without prejudice to what aboriginal people may negotiate in the future because I don't know what those look like five or 10 years from now, but we would want to negotiate something that makes sure that some of the resource revenues today stay in the North rather than flow to the South for another 10 years or whatever it will take for everybody to have their aboriginal processes completed and then start negotiating.

Otherwise, if we do that, I believe we stand the risk of being here for 15 years and resource revenues just leaking out of here like crazy. So I have focused on an interim resource revenue sharing arrangement as a way of getting some of those resource revenues into the hands of our people quickly, but there is no intention if anyone believing that we are going to try to negotiate devolution without aboriginal governments or just even have devolution negotiated only to our government and then we would negotiate with aboriginal governments, that's wrong. We're not looking at it at all that way. This is clearly a three-party or tripartite form of negotiations; aboriginal governments, our government and the federal government. Thank you.