Yes, Mr. Chairman, I don't know if I'd call it a plan B, but the Inuvialuit, Gwich'in, Sahtu, Tlicho all have signed agreements. They all have implementation processes to move ahead with implementing their claims, their modern treaties. They will move ahead at their own pace. It won't be the same for everybody. If I can, Mr. Chairman, the Tlicho have their own schedule all laid out of when they will move ahead with self-government, because theirs is a self-government agreement. In the Sahtu, we have individual communities moving ahead with discussions on self-government. The same is true in the Beau-Del area. So, Mr. Chairman, each of those is going to move ahead at its own pace. Because some of the aboriginal organizations have not negotiated a final claim yet isn't a reason to hold up everybody else because that is really interrupting someone else's right. So I see self-government as a process that'll move along as fast as regions and communities are ready to take it on. It won't be lock-step right across the Territories.

Mr. Chairman, devolution itself will continue. Devolution will continue in the sense of discussions of transferring province-like powers held by the Department of Indian Affairs, by the federal government, to the territorial government. So it will become more and more the territory, more and more province-like. That can still continue and will continue. The same with resource revenue sharing. That can still continue even though claims are not settled. But those that have settled claims will not be able to take on self-government responsibilities until they have a claim and become a self-government or become a government, because they're not a government until they have a settled claim.

So, Mr. Chairman, the way I see it, it isn't a plan A or plan B, but it's a matter of respecting every region's right to move at its own pace, in its own direction, and yet do it in a way that doesn't interfere with someone else's right. I think it can happen and there is no reason that it all has to be lock-step. But at the same time, Mr. Chairman, I must say that nobody has a veto over what somebody else does. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.