Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The overall increase of the Department of Executive incorporates a number of the strategic initiatives that we’ve discussed through the life of this Assembly and also includes the compensation portion, the compensation benefits portion of the budget and that is why it goes over the target amount.

The areas of the NGOs and volunteers, we are doing work in those areas and we will be prepared to speak to them as we go through the detail of the budget.

On the agreement-in-principle, devolution, the comments I made in my opening remarks about funding and having to go forward and get our budget prepared, as this budget right now does not have funding that would be required to work with all of the groups, those that wanted to work with us to do the work, we would have to come forward early in the new year to request of this Assembly dollars to work with the groups that are there and want to move forward on negotiations, and the negotiations will take part in a number of ways. There are areas where bilateral discussions will happen strictly with Aboriginal groups, and that is Section 12 when it talks about resource revenue sharing.

There are other areas where we will deal specifically with the federal government; for example, transfer of employees to the Government of the Northwest Territories from the federal government, and other areas where it’ll be more inclusive of all groups when it comes to, for example, chapter 6, where we talk about jurisdiction and sharing of authorities in that area and implementation of the final agreement. So there are a number of different levels of negotiation that would be required. We’ll have to do a lot of work in the upcoming months to prepare for that, a work plan, schedule and prepare for mandates as we would venture down the road of negotiations with the federal government and with Aboriginal governments. Thank you.