Mr. Chairman, the approach of community self-governments is, number one, we had discussion with the federal government to raise our concerns of the additional costs that would be faced not only by us as GNWT but the community self-governments themselves when we do look at those economies of scale or lack thereof, because it is broken down into a smaller and smaller group. We shared our concerns with the federal government.
On the financing of self-government pieces, we now, as I highlighted, brought our concerns about self-government financing to the regional leadership table and are now bringing that information to all of the negotiation tables in that area. As well, we request -- and many groups are starting to do this -- when it comes to do the financing, instead of punting the financing piece to after the agreement-in-principle stage, they are agreeing to have the discussion up front first with the federal government, which is a much better approach to the way it has been done in the past. Yes, we now have been bringing the cost of self-government financing to the tables right to the negotiation tables of the community as well as to the federal government. Our concern is that the right is there that if the community chooses to go that route, it is there established and that the federal government will honour that and by the federal government honouring it, then we end up bearing the cost to be at that table as well. Thank you.