Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There was a draft of an agreement-in-principle that was completed in June 2005. It was never signed, but it was agreed to by the aboriginal leaders represented by the summit. Mr. Speaker, that was as close as we got. There were outstanding issues with the federal government.
Mr. Speaker, in December, when I met with the aboriginal governments and organizations, we went through the principles that were included in the 2005 agreement and had verbal agreement from those around the table to the principles.
Also at that time, we committed to doing workshops to help explain devolution and resource revenue sharing to them in each region. Mr. Speaker, there was no signed agreement in 2005, the draft, and last December there was agreement verbally around the table to work towards an AIP to be signed by the end of March. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.