Until these negotiations are complete and an agreement is reached, we are the service provider at the Department of Health and Social Services through our health authorities, including the Tlicho Community Services Agency. When Indigenous governments approach us to begin discussions about negotiations, we are very happy to provide them with a range of options which could be them creating and implementing their own law if they have the capacity to do it, or it could be a collaborative arrangement between the GNWT and the Indigenous governments.

To reiterate, at the time that the bill came into force, my predecessor wrote to every Indigenous organization; once I became Minister, I wrote to every Indigenous organization. I have been to approximately six bilateral conversations with Indigenous government and Indigenous government organizations, and in each one, I have talked about this legislation and invited them to take up the challenge. The major stumbling block, I am hearing, is capacity. People understand that creating a law, creating an implementation plan is a huge undertaking, and so I think there is interest. We do not, at this point, have anything that has started in the way of negotiations.