Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, on a couple of fronts, one, when it comes down to the actual mandates we are involved in, right now as the table is established we end up taking part at that table. We’ve raised the concern about the funding situation, the workload on our existing staff. In fact, as this budget shows, we are coming in for additional resources. The decision would come down in the existing framework. If we don’t want to bear the additional cost, then we have to make a choice. Do we go to the table or do we stay away from the table? That’s the decision we have right now. As it comes to trying to have the federal government provide more funds for it, they haven’t been very receptive. We’ve made our arguments. We continue to make our arguments and even on a larger front, when it comes to all the self-government tables now, the federal government’s tone on incremental costs, as we term it, they’ve turned their stance to a rather negative one where they are saying that the aboriginal government and the GNWT will have to deal with those additional costs from existing resources or from own-source revenues. So that’s a concern.

We are working jointly now through the regional aboriginal tables through raising the concern of this self-government piece and working to come up with a comprehensive approach in the North to approach the federal government to put before them our business case as to why that needs to be reconsidered. Thank you.