Mr. Chairman, let me try this approach to the Member’s questions and concerns. The regional level leaders’ table does and is starting to deal with these picture items and how we would approach the federal government and our position. This is sort of based around the work that has been done in the past around devolution and resource revenue sharing where the government-of-the-day worked with the leadership, a majority of the group signed off on an approach, sent it into the federal government. That side of it, a response was not given as elections were called on that piece. That is one of those issues we’ve brought to the regional leaders’ table to say, okay, we have an offer that was on the table that hasn’t been responded to. How do we progress?

Some of the stuff needs to be done. We need to come up with an agreement in the North before we can get to Ottawa because we have a number of groups who have said, well, devolution and resource revenue sharing, we’re negotiating, we don’t want to deal with that right now, so leave it alone. We’ve got others who say we’re ready to go. We’re trying to find some common ground where we can come up with a package that’s acceptable to the large group of leaders in the North that we feel we can present to the federal government.

Self-government financing, the example I gave already, we are working together on an approach to the federal government. Some of the other issues that we established and brought to the table and have a joint working group now is, for example, on the Water Strategy. That was developed and brought to the table at the regional leaders’ table. The Land Use Framework is another initiative that we’ve brought to that table and we will continue coming up with a common approach that I believe will help us in settling some of those other areas when it comes to legislation that we come up with that common approach. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.