Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Member for that question because it does go towards our whole discussion about devolution of authority to the Northwest Territories. In the Member’s statement he highlighted quite a number of things. It further emphasized the fact why we need to get devolution to the North for northern governments to be making decisions about what happens in our front yard, not in Canada’s backyard. So we continue to work with the aboriginal governments and groups along with the federal government on quite a number of issues, trying to see if we can move together on that initiative.

Specifically on the area of the Northern Economic Development Agency there has been quite a number of discussions. Number one, our first role was to ensure that there was a role for the Government of the Northwest Territories. We know this Northern Development Agency is to be focused on Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon. So we want to ensure that we had a voice at the table and had some input. The other area that’s probably more important to the next steps is where is the location. We have had a number of meetings ourselves with the federal Ministers and I’m hoping to have a discussion with Minister Strahl in the upcoming days. We’ve already started making the business case that because of our location central to the North and the economic opportunities in the Northwest Territories, that it makes absolute sense that that agency be based in the Northwest Territories.