Thank you, Madam Chair. The reporting with resource royalties to Indigenous governments that signed on to devolution is a percentage of the entire royalty that is received by all resource development in the North, and it's per capita to all those who have signed on to devolution. So there is a way of looking at this in a different way, and the Indigenous governments would not be willing to share those kind of -- that kind of information. It's an agreement between the federal government and Indigenous governments when they signed on to devolution. And maybe that's one of the reasons why this kind of information is kept confidential, and rightfully so. They're the first peoples of the North, and they're First Nations, and I want to recognize my colleague to the left. I mean, he works very hard for his -- the mandate that he carries and might not always agree with him but, you know, I appreciate his view also. But I want to say that there are some agreements that when you are in - when you come to an agreement with the federal government on devolution and agreed to go on with devolution in -- and in royalty sharing, those are private agreements with the Indigenous government and it was also signed off by the government of the NWT, but that was one of the things that was to be kept confidential, okay. So thank you, Madam Chair.
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