Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the Members know, I am sure, that it is the mandate commitment of the 18th Assembly to implement an agreed upon government structure allowing you to fly into Wekweeti management area on public lands. The Tlicho Government have one already established on private lands. So where we are now is we are collaborating with the Tlicho Government and other planning partners to develop a term of reference to move forward with planning for the public lands. You know, the public lands represent an opportunity to build a relationship through collaboration and it definitely will provide certainty regarding economic development, future prosperity, on and on, and of course some of those public lands in the Wekweeti take in two diamond mines and it also takes in the proposed road to Whati, and also it takes in the Bathurst caribou migration route also.

So it is a very important plan and we have full cooperation of the Tlicho Government to move forward on it. They are very keen to do so. We have had discussions with the Government of Canada. They are a signatory to the Tlicho Land Claim Agreement, so they have supported financially and with people the Gwich'in plan 25 years ago or so, the Sahtu plan, and the current draft of the Deh Cho Land Use Plan.

So far they have not said no, but we have not had a lot of luck getting support from them and moving this initiative forward, and we do not have the budget. We would need approximately $5 million over four years to complete the plan, but we are doing what we can and we are collaborating, like I say, with the Tlicho Government right now and trying to develop a term of reference.

Our Aboriginal organizations that have rights in the region also, so it does get very complicated, so we are not dealing just with the Tlicho here, we are dealing with other Aboriginal governments. We have not moved very far along yet, but we are starting the process. Thank you, Mr. Chair.