Thank you, Madam Speaker. We have to distinguish between negotiations on devolution and negotiations on self-government. Devolution is the transfer of responsibility from the federal government to the territorial and aboriginal governments. We are ourselves, as a territorial government, and the aboriginal governments, at the table. We each have to negotiate our own positions and I think we have been very effective in doing that.

Self-government is another process altogether. Deline, Tulita, the Beaufort-Delta have entered into self-government negotiations and, as I said, I welcome any aboriginal government who chooses to do so, to begin the process of negotiating self-government. That is how they become public governments.

In the meantime, Madam Speaker, when we negotiate with the federal government, then we are negotiating as a territorial government, we are negotiating to take those responsibilities that are currently held by the federal government on as a public government. Should aboriginal

governments want to take those on, they can negotiate with us, but that's a separate process.

Madam Speaker, again I would like to emphasize that we have gone a long ways and without getting into all the detail of negotiations, there are some differences between ourselves and the aboriginal governments or the Aboriginal Summit on things like resource revenue sharing, and we have gone a long ways towards in fact arguing with the federal government to provide a percentage of resource revenues to the aboriginal governments even before they take on self-government. But there is only so far we can go because we have to use those revenues to be able to finance and fund the public institutions that we're responsible for, and until somebody else takes over the education system or the health system or the housing responsibilities, we can't negotiate all the money away or we'll be left with no ability to deliver our services. Thank you, Madam Speaker.