I guess the point I was looking and hoping that maybe...I appreciate the Premier going out to the regional leadership and initiating some regional meetings in our communities. I want to commend him on that for making these meetings happen in our regions with the leadership. I guess what I’m looking at is hoping that throughout these meetings that there will be a point in time when we get consensus strong enough from our leadership and our Cabinet, the Premier, to go down to Ottawa and say enough is enough in terms of the issues that we need to deal with.

Right now, Mr. Chairman, we are put in the situation like this whole next couple of weeks here. We are put in the situation where we, as Members, come from various communities that have to deal with a budget that, you know, everybody wants something very desperately in their communities and the federal government puts an amount of $1.3 million, I believe, $1.2 billion, into the Northwest Territories. Yet it’s so slow in terms of having us be a real partner in Canada and with these negotiations within our region here because of the amount of billions and billions of dollars they stand to lose if we are to alter any type of authority or jurisdiction in terms of our negotiations.

I think that’s what I was looking for. Maybe that will require another table at another time, Mr. Chair. Something has to be done to shake things and not have the status quo. I’m not too sure if we’re at that point yet where we’re going to have a real radical change in terms of...Otherwise, if we don’t do it, these self-governments and these land claim agreements are going to do it for us.

Believe me, people in the communities are not happy with how they are being serviced by the federal government. We are sometimes, even with the existing Assembly here, we have to manage $1.2 billion in the vast amount of needs in our

communities. That’s what I’m looking for. Again, I’m going to ask the Premier is that something that’s been somewhat discussed and if that is, is it seeking a lukewarm reaction or is it something that we should really consider in the Northwest Territories, maybe in the next Assembly? I’m just trying to get some signals from the Premier in terms of his meetings with the aboriginal and the people in the North in terms of what I’ve spoke on.