Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I have the luxury of just choosing an answer to one of them. No. I will answer all of the points that the Member raised because they are all very important points.

On the matter of general service officers, we now have 18. If this budget is approved, we’ll have 18 of them. We found that we benefited significantly by having them very active in the community. Also, it has helped us with decentralization because we’ve had to go to communities, we’ve had to find office space, we’ve had to work with them on accommodations, so I think we found a winner in this program. Every opportunity we have to add officers to the communities, we would strive to do so.

On the Status of Women, I guess I should explain a couple of initiatives. We’ve started to take a very prominent national leadership role with not only native women or the Aboriginal Affairs Working Group or the Status of Women’s Council, we are

chairing Aboriginal Affairs Working Group and we are hosting the Status of Women FPT program this summer. We have strongly joined the call for a national inquiry on missing and murdered women and we will continue to do so.

On decentralization, I think it’s always been our understanding that after devolution’s transfer date of April 1st that we would take a very strategic and

well planned approach to decentralization. We have identified funding for market housing and also for office space. It’s our expectation that, over the next 18 months, we will have a very well-thought-out plan, including the potential of looking at the regional structures to decentralize a significant number of positions. That is our objective.

I think that devolution was a very big job. I am very pleased that our devolution team, along with the federal government team, were able to forge a very strong partnership and relationship to make it happen with a transfer date on April 1st . It is

unfortunate that all good things come to an end and the team will essentially move on, but that’s the way life goes in the government.

On constitutional reform, I think that we’re getting closer and closer to having all the land claims and self-government agreements negotiated. I guess at some point government will have to make a call as to whether they want to go into another, hopefully, final round of constitutional reform, but I guess that’s a judgment call for government sometime soon. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.