Mr. Chairman, the process that we have gone down in the past, as I
said a number of times quite a number of years ago, funding has been provided by both the federal government and the Government of the Northwest Territories in assisting groups from their earliest days of the Intergovernmental Forum, the Aboriginal Summit and to the regional Aboriginal leadership meetings that we have established through the 16
th
Legislative Assembly. As following
the AIP signing, sent a letter out to all the regions, and copied their leadership, inviting them to contact us to set up a process where we can set up community meetings and discuss the AIP and fund it through that process. Clearly, by signing the AIP, that allows then the groups that sign to be able to tap into the fund that was identified through the agreement-in-principle, so that is one area.
As I had informed Members, this budget hasn’t been adjusted to deal with the increased workload that we are going to have to take on, so we would have to come back in a supplementary appropriation to deal with the additional requests as, for example, we are working internally right now with the Sahtu, for example, to help them with a meeting that was recently held in looking at support for an additional meeting. We would be prepared to do that type of work with other regions and communities as well. Thank you.