Thank you, Madam Speaker. I'm not sure what the Member is referring to when he's talking about foot dragging. We have negotiations that are going on between the federal government, territorial government and the aboriginal governments on devolution and resource revenue sharing. There are some differences of positions between each of the three parties. We don't refer to the aboriginal government or federal government as foot dragging. I think those are the characteristics of good negotiations that each party will put offers on the table, each party will be willing to compromise and think of creative ways. We certainly will do that. We don't issue ultimatums. We simply want to have good, solid negotiations happening. We have respect for the aboriginal governments as representatives of their people and at the table they are represented by the Aboriginal Summit, and I assume the aboriginal governments provide direction to the summit and we honour that.

As far as recognizing aboriginal governments as public governments, there is a process for doing that. In the case of the Tlicho, that was part of their settlement. In other situations we have negotiations going on whereby aboriginal governments are negotiating for what we refer to as self-government where they will take on the provision of public government services. I certainly welcome any aboriginal government to begin negotiations on self-government if they choose to go that route. Thank you, Madam Speaker.