Mr. Chairman, a couple of weeks ago, two or three weeks ago, I had a meeting with the aboriginal regional leadership. At that time, I talked to them about the summit and the issues around us funding their summit directly for them, and talked, as well, about who are the leaders, who's the leadership in the Territories. The agreement was that the leadership were those people who were elected at the regional level and they are the ones who are the leaders. The agreement at that meeting was that we would, instead of us funding the summit for them, we would give them the money. They would work out, along with us, how much goes to the Sahtu, how much goes to the Gwich'in area, how much to the Inuvialuit and so on. They would then have to collectively make their own decision about what the summit would look like and what their fee would be for belonging to the summit in order to pay its expenses.

Mr. Chairman, the summit is in some ways, I'd say, very similar to the Council of the Federation of the Premiers where we get together regularly, we decide what the fee is, and we choose to belong or not belong to it and it serves our purposes. So I see dealing with the summit in the same way. Whether the summit survives or whether it disappears is going to be a decision that is going to be made collectively by the aboriginal regional leadership. Thank you.