Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In our discussions with federal Finance we deal with the transfer payments that come directly out of their section into our government and get accounted. Within each department there are some smaller agreements that flow. The issue of the DIAND, and that's where it flows from is DIAND, dollars for aboriginal health flows out of DIAND, and that does not flow through Finance or our discussions on formula discussions. It's a deal directly and each jurisdiction would deal directly with the health side of the equation. So through Health and Social Services what we do is we spend up front the money for providing the level of service we do in communities and then we send those invoices out to the federal government for reimbursement.

Right now we are sitting on about $65 million of unpaid invoices from the federal government to deal with health care provided to aboriginal people in our communities. DIAND has a policy in place at a 2 percent cap, and we spend beyond that 2 percent cap. In fact, it's an issue that I've raised at -- putting on a different hat -- the Health Ministers, Health and Social Services Ministers, about that cap. Other jurisdictions that have aboriginal people in their jurisdictions face the same area, the 2 percent cap. It is an issue. I've raised it with my colleague on the health side, Minister Clement, as well as copied Minister Prentice on that issue and it's something we have to continue to deal with and trying to come up to resolve. In fact, I've even looked at the past 12th Assembly that dealt with this. I believe they were up to about $70 million at that point and were dealing with the federal government. So it's not a new issue. It's gone back and forth, but we do need to deal with this and bring some closure and then get adequacy brought back into the picture. Thank you.