Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Minister is possibly correct that if he does open up the funding for the Metis local, then he would have a lot of other consequences of opening that door for the organizations.

Again, the NWT Metis Nation is south of the lake. It represents a different group of Metis Nation people. I am hoping that is referred to the NWT Metis. There is some talk about the Mackenzie Valley up the river right down up to the Beaufort up to the Inuvik area here. The organization gets $50,000. Then the Aboriginal Summit will have some allocation of funding. For the Metis locals again, if you look at $13,000 a year, it is just about $1,100 or $1,200 a month. You divide that into 20 or 25 days of operation. It is hard to believe that some of the organizations do not have land corporations to help them with the operation. If it wasn't for them, they would just be orphans in this community.

I sort of understand where the Premier or Minister is coming from in terms of funding this type of operation. It is just not a good thing here. Again, the Metis are left out of the political development and the evolution of the North. They are fighting hard to get some form of recognition in the federal system. You have some in the territorial where you have some Metis health benefits going to them, which is a real plus on this government's part. It is the funding of the political organization that is falling way short, Mr. Chair.

I would get into the third-party framework accountability, well, you have one, the Status of Women Council, which is a statutory organization under the territorial government. You have different other categories that are not NGOs that are not statutory organizations. Regarding this third-party framework accountability, in my opinion, the Metis Nation grants should almost fall above the Status of Women Council in terms of statutory. This is a major political body. This is a government body of Metis people in our communities. This is not an advisory committee. This is a political legitimate government body recognized by all our people. I am having a hard time, Mr. Chair, in terms of seeing how this...there are some nice words that says vision or mission goals. When you come to this here, it just doesn't mean anything. That is what I am getting at. Maybe I will leave it at that in my frustration, Mr. Chair. This means nothing. Thank you.