Thank you, Madam Chair. Just for clarity, I just want to make sure that people understand the -- what I'm hearing is the question around the land that is in question is the Denesuline and the other group from Manitoba and, you know, if I didn't ask this question, I'd probably be questioned about it in Fort Smith. So I just want to make sure that people understand that once you do these transboundary agreements with other First Nations that are not part of the Northwest Territories, that the Government of the Northwest Territories, or anybody within that region, any time there's going to be any development or any changes or anything, under section 35 they have the same right as the Akaitcho territory, the Salt River First Nation, who has lands in that area. And so it becomes a very -- it's a situation that could be detrimental to the Government of the Northwest Territories in the future. I know this is being forced upon us by the federal government, and I would caution the territorial government to be very careful with this because that's the mineral-rich area in the eastern NWT, and I have to say this for the people of the Northwest Territories.
I don't have any questions but I want people to be cautious and understand that, because the last Assembly under Premier McLeod, I know there was a court case and I think that has been dropped, and I'm wondering why, and I just have to say those things because I want it for the record that I -- that I brought it forward because I've been questioned on this at several different -- by several different aboriginal organizations, and I'm not in the chair to make that decision. So thank you, Madam Chair.