Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I have to commend the Premier with securing over $100 million over the next few years with the federal government in our territorial formula financing and equalization. I have to express my scepticism in promises that are made and agreements made with our federal counterparts with regard to equalization and territorial funding just due to the fact that these programs are highly unpredictable and they are volatile depending on economic fluctuations in various parts of the country. Then our equalization gets off balance and new formula financing agreements come into play. So I guess we're just going to have to ride it out and see what happens on that initiative.

With regard to the development with a work plan on how to move forward to develop a strategy on devolution and resource revenue sharing, just to get back to a point the Premier made with regard to a joint working relationship with the federal government on developing this strategy, I know I've been getting and seeing some correspondence coming from a lot of the First Nations claim groups and negotiation tables that this whole approach and the whole initiative of government-to-government work plan on devolution and resource revenue sharing is undermining and may threaten to derail some of the First Nations negotiations that are going on right now between like the Akaitcho government, for instance, and the federal government.

I'm just wondering how the Premier is planning on integrating these First Nations. Not all of them really put all their trust and their confidence into the Aboriginal Summit or the Intergovernmental Forum. So I want to ask what other direction or options could be available to work with this resource revenue sharing and devolution because I know that everybody is in agreement. That is the common goal that we all want, but as far as the federal government devolving powers over land or water and resources to the territorial government and then the territorial government saying we're going to start devolving some of that powers to the First Nations group, once you get it, you are not going to let go as provinces have done in other jurisdictions with First Nations land claim negotiation groups. What can the Premier tell these First Nations negotiations that they are trying to coincide with what they are doing at their main table negotiations and how their input is going to be taken into consideration; how they can have some meaningful role in developing this devolution strategy?