Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, I believe that the way this money is being allocated is not fair, and also it does not take into consideration that we have a fiduciary obligation under land claims agreements to the Gwich’in, to the Sahtu, to the Tlicho, and their land claim agreements clearly states that they shall be involved in the development of a northern accord or basically what you call devolution. It clearly tells me that we do have an obligation to those organizations, especially in regards to the land claims, regardless if it’s at the negotiating tables or even at a side table, but we do have an obligation to take into consideration of their views, regardless if it's in the written form, or else in regards to the whole overall process of inclusion and not exclusion simply because you didn’t agree to sign a bad deal. I think that that is the issue that’s still out there, and I think from the Aboriginal leadership throughout the Mackenzie Valley and all of the Dene leaders, that is the issue. The issue is that the Dene people cannot agree to the notion that someone else is going to take royalties and resources from Dene lands where they have treaty rights. They have modern day treaties, and Treaty 8, Treaty 11 rights in the Northwest Territories, but they’re being excluded from a process that has been initialled off by groups that do not have an interest in the Mackenzie Valley where those treaty lands and those treaty rights pertain to the Mackenzie Valley.
So I’d like to ask the Minister why is it that you’re identifying a majority of those resources for two groups who do not have an interest by way of lands interests, by ownership, or a land claim agreement, and yet we’re allowing groups that don’t have an interest on negotiating resource revenue sharing throughout the Mackenzie Valley, yet those people do not have an investment in those lands that you are willing to sit down and negotiate away without the Dene at the table?