Thank you, Mr. Chair. The territorial government signed a memorandum of understanding with the federal government around the implementation costs for land claims and at the time were successful to have Canada pay 100 percent of the GNWT’s costs associated with the implementation of all the agreements. When we

approached Canada to negotiate a similar arrangement for our incremental costs associated with the implementation of self-government, we were advised by Canada unequivocally no. That self-government implementation is a shared responsibility to be shared by all three parties to self-government agreements and there is clearly an expectation that the Government of the Northwest Territories will pay for its own incremental costs associated with the implementation of self-government agreements, that the aboriginal governments will also pay for their implementation of the agreements and Canada would assume their own costs. Thank you.