Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. I have short comments to the Premier. I want to thank the Premier and the Deputy Premier for going to Ottawa and working on our behalf. You came back with some good news. We see some changes that would affect our government. But, also, I believe you took the message to Ottawa from our last discussion here last week. I want to ask the Premier regarding his discussions about the aboriginal land claim groups that have settled and the other land claim groups that are in negotiations on self-government or land claims issues themselves in terms of the resource revenue sharing process.

I want to ask the Premier if he would help me understand how and what types of engagement is going to involve the aboriginal groups in developing a comprehensive strategy for the Northwest Territories. By mechanisms I guess, because it says in his first page here, that the federal and territorial governments, in cooperation with the aboriginal people and northern residents, should include joint priorities -- some of these groups are in self-government -- to see how these aboriginal governments would be involved in this process. I think that is all I have, Madam Chair.

I guess what I'm looking at is the Premier is right; we do represent all people of the Northwest Territories. Part of the reality is that some of these aboriginal claimant groups have a special relationship with the federal government. That is part of the reality. They are going to be a third legitimate government in the Northwest Territories. Maybe one day we will see that. Right now, we are the government that the federal government wants to negotiate these arrangements with. At the same time, Mr. Premier, that is still the opinion of the federal government, that we are the government that they want to have some discussions with or they open up the doors to the aboriginal governments to talk about resource revenue sharing and some of the other transfers of federal funding to the Northwest Territories.

I know it is a sensitive issue, a complex issue, but it is an issue that is very important to the people in the small communities who believe and who have strong support for their aboriginal governments, just for them to see how they look at negotiations and how they look at their government. I think that is about it.

But I want just to say in closing that I thank the Premier and the Deputy Premier for going out to Ottawa, getting something and coming back to us. It is good news. I know sometimes it is hard to deal with them. I am glad that the Premier is saying that the Prime Minister is looking at the Northwest Territories more like a province now. Maybe one day we will have some other discussions on that. His attitude is changing, I guess, with the Cabinet Ministers down there, that the Northwest Territories is becoming more of the South in terms of how we are going to see our governments in the future. That is all I have to say, Madam Chair. Thank you.