Mr. Chair, again, I think this process is too top heavy. It’s basically run out of Yellowknife. I think that you have to start doing workshops and having these meetings in the communities. I know in the Mackenzie Delta we

have been requesting having a water conference and we have been talking about the Peel River watershed. There’s a major effort being made between the Yukon government and the Gwich’in Tribal Council to develop a land use plan for the Peel River watershed. Again, that’s another government in another jurisdiction and we seem to have a better relationship with the Yukon government than we actually have with the Government of the Northwest Territories when it deals with overlap issues such as the Peel River watershed. I’ve been asking for that since I’ve got here in regard to trying to have a conference in regard to the Peel River watershed, because the issues that Fort McPherson and Aklavik have had in regard to water directly correlate with the Peel River watershed. There’s major mining development that’s going on in this watershed and I think it’s important that, you know, we’re focusing on the Alberta watershed and we’re not focusing on the watershed in regard to the Peel River which, again, has to be developed into any process.

Again, I’d like to know, out of the $725,000, how much of that is going to be expended in actually doing work in the communities with community groups and organizations so that we can develop a made-in-the-North Water Strategy and depending then on groups and agencies from outside the Northwest Territories.