Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We really live in a multi-cultural and multi-diverse area of the territory, which includes many various details of consultation. I have seen many applications, demonstrations of systems, and consultations that give you the terminology of joint collaboration. I have carried land-use planning applications, which were underneath the jurisdiction of Diane in those days. I have carried applications in boxes to the Sahtu land-use planning office. Then the process carries on through the referral as set out in the land claim. Those are just examples of consultation.

Back to the bill, I know for a fact that the working group was made up of a representative from the Sahtu. No one can say we weren't at the table. Consultation is truly a terminology that could be described in many ways. Is it a phone call? Is it a fax? Is it a text?

The department has given me confidence that, yes, we have defined consultation by saying, "Okay. We are going to reach out to parties and the stakeholders, and we are going to bring them to the table so we are sitting across from each other." To me, that is genuine consultation rather than doing it over the phone.

We are in a very similar situation as what we discussed the other day on one of the other previous bills to allow community consultation. I support this bill, and I support it moving on to the next stage of consultation, and I am hoping that some of the communities that I represent would be on the engagement referral list, to give more public input outside of the representation that we had on the technical working group. After all, everybody should be allowed to speak at these public forums. Elements of cooperation and reconciliation, consensus government, I put all of that in the basket of what I have learned over the last three and a half years. Just earlier, we came to a compromise by extending and giving an extension to Bill 29, which allows for more time to design the piece of legislation that is going to be there for generations and generations. Joint collaboration and consultation, we have that coming up in the Sahtu. My understanding is that there is a bilateral meeting going to happen next month. So those are examples of consultations. Now, if one side cannot make the meeting and they send a representative, well, to me, the principle of the meeting is there. We have a structure in the Sahtu. I can't speak for anybody outside the Sahtu, but, in the Sahtu, we have a regime and we have an administration that looks after various departments. In this case, the representative for the SRRB was at the table.

So, given the consultations, there is going to be room for additional recommendations once we take the piece of legislation out on the road, and I look forward to working with the people who I represent in both communities, of non-beneficiaries and beneficiaries, saying, "Right here, here is the schedule. Tell me when you want me to put you on the list." I will engage them and help the department to engage and reach out to those organizations that I think would be appropriate for positive feedback in designing and modernizing this piece of legislation. We have also got to keep in mind that what we are doing today is for tomorrow's generation. That is about all I have got to say. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.