Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ve had discussions with Dene National Chief Mr. Bill Erasmus around this area and talked about the work we are doing at the regional leaders’ table and putting the political development forum together. His interest is on a constitutional process that would look at self-governments as well as the public government, and come together in some fashion. I’ve sat down with him a number of times to say let’s do this political development forum piece. That could potentially lead to that other work.
I feel we need to get all -- as we have one self-government on the table now and that’s the Tlicho -- we have the public government and we have other negotiations happening. We at least have a model basis we can work with now and the political development forum piece is the work we’re going to put on the table. In fact, we have meetings with the regional leaders upcoming I believe on the 23rd and
24th of November. The Members are a part of that
process.
The constitutional discussions that the Dene Assembly is having is probably along the lines of what Mr. Erasmus spoke to me about, and we’re interested in where he’s going with that. In fact, I know the motion that was passed this summer is something that I’m willing to have a discussion
about their involvement in our political development forum and see where we’d go with that. Thank you.