That is my concern, is that we don’t seem to have the resources or the capacity to assist these people to get them to the table. We have money there to pay people that have signed on. I think it was $170,000, yet we are asking for $2.2 million. So there’s a small portion there for that consultative process, but what is there to find ways of working around the challenges we are facing? I thought we were going to be close in this process.

There was a bilateral arrangement back in December. Everybody met in Edmonton after Christmas. We came back to Yellowknife to get together and then basically the whole process collapsed around it. There were efforts being made to get parties together and get them to some sort of an arrangement, but we never allowed the process to see the light of day. I think we, as government, still have an obligation to ensure we hear people out on this process, good, bad or indifferent. We need to at least have the resources there to have that take place. This is a critical building block of the northern environment going forward. If you don’t have this, you are going to be on a rough road going forward with regard to relationships government to government to government.

It seems like the relationships we have is just with two interest groups. There are five groups still not there. I represent one of these groups and I feel

that we have been unjustly chucked out of the room simply because we don’t have an agreeing of the minds where people are coming from or taking the time to understand it.

So out of the $2.2 million, how much has been set aside to find an avenue to bring those people together with regard to the approval of the $2.2 million budget?