Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the area of devolution, as we all know, this has been going on since 1988, when it was basically first signed off by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the aboriginal groups in the Northwest Territories. So it's been some time since we've really seen any progress.
I'd just like to note that the devolution process on resource revenue sharing is part and parcel of the Dene/Métis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement. That agreement clearly states right in it that the aboriginal groups “shall” be involved in those negotiations. It doesn't say they "may" or they "might"; it says they "shall" be involved in it. I think it's important to realize, because they're in those land claim agreements, that transfer was not going to take place because of the Dene-Métis claim that was signed — an agreement-in-principal — in 1988, and then the land claim agreements that followed. The government has to do a better job of allowing those groups to negotiate that process, along with ourselves, to take that authority back from Ottawa.
I'd just like to ask the Premier: in light of your discussions with the First Nations government, exactly what resources are there for the aboriginal governments to fully negotiate or participate in a negotiation of the transfer of resource revenue sharing from Ottawa to the Northwest Territories?