Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The outstanding amounts with Nunavut are going back up to six years at various stages. I think it should be made very clear that until lately, until last November or December, there was not a working written contract between Nunavut and the NWT. There was an understanding about providing services. I had directed the department to work with Stanton to have Stanton officials and department officials -- because the relationship and contracts are between

two governments and Stanton is a local authority -- meet and discuss how we resolve this. They did, and they came up with a working agreement that could carry us going forward. But we had to agree that given the lack of a written agreement that laid out clearly and exactly how Nunavut was to pay us, that it was necessary that we come to a mutual agreement that we would agree to write off some of the amounts that have been outstanding for a very long time and there was not a 100 percent clear agreement as to exactly how much they were going to be billed for.