Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As much as possible we want to structure our funding to the regional aboriginal organizations in a way that gives them maximum autonomy in terms of how they structure themselves and what kind of territorial organization they may need to support them. The purpose in doing that, of course, is to allow them to participate in a forum that lets them work cooperatively; it doesn't matter if it's to discuss devolution, or resource revenue sharing, or caribou harvesting, or whatever it may be that they want to do at the territorial level. It gives them the money to be able to participate.

Mr. Chairman, in that $200,000, that money was $100,000 to be distributed to aboriginal organizations across the Territories with the exception of the Gwich'in and the Inuvialuit, and $100,000 was to go to the Beau-Del regional self-government. The regional self-government had signed an AIP and we're moving along toward a Beau-Del regional government. A few weeks ago, the president of the Gwich'in Tribal Council formally stated that the Gwich'in were no longer participating in that regional self-government model. We still need to get more clarification from the Beau-Del leaders of how they want to pursue the self-government; whether it's going to be each on their own or what they will do. There's a meeting in the Beau-Del later in March that I intend to go to and hopefully get more clarification, but that, so $100,000 had been set aside for the Beau-Del. Whether we spend that $100,000 there and $100,000 to the rest of the territory will depend on the outcome of the meeting later in March, but this, as Members understand, is changing almost on a weekly basis for us. Thank you.