Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the support for negotiations, because we share a number of tables, we don’t just have one chief negotiator, assistant negotiator just

for one table. It would be fairly difficult in keeping them supported around the different discussions and as to locations of actual negotiations, they do happen. Some groups decide to do negotiations in their communities and regions. Some travel, whether it is to the capital or to Ottawa or other places that they choose. Each, for example, the aboriginal government that is negotiating and the GNWT all have a selection that they can put on the table for where they’d like to hold their meeting and that does bounce around substantially between regions. So it would be difficult.

We have no support structure right now in regional centres that would support the role of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations. That’s not to say that at some point that couldn’t be looked at. The difficulty would be right now because we are such a small department and taking it apart that way, the support structure would be diminished somewhat. Thank you.