Thank you, Mr. Chair. My comments here is to the Department of EIA. Taking a lead role in representing this institution or this mandate or this government outside of this government in building relations, I totally agree with the mandate to engage in a number of ways, including building trust and relationships with the other land title organizations out there. For a number of reasons, we have the conventions allowing you to do so. And I see a need for improvement, and I'm quite satisfied with the business plan to resolve those and expedite solutions in particular. The only government authority we have in 33 communities is the Deline Got'ine government. So when I go there for my visit, I see huge potential and I see huge growth in a number of areas, including child development in the local schools. And adding to their growth, because of the status of self-government which allows them to approach both levels of government, both the territorial government and the federal government. In some other areas, whether it's settled claim area, and over 60 percent of our territory is in settlement title. And the unsettled areas seem to be further behind than the showcase of growth given to the powers underneath self-government status to Deline, the Deline Got'ine government. So therefore, the other candidate within the Sahtu is Colville Lake. There's a few organizations that have signed AIPs, and if we can have control of the growth that could be expedited for the conclusion of self-government agreements within this mandate, I think it's a good fit to have the Premier taking a role and addressing leadership in those communities to accomplish what we've seen already that has a proven track record and the accomplishments by the Deline Got'ine government.

So the Deline Got'ine government has set a model for community development growth, jurisdictional growth, and future growth within their capacity utilizing their strengths given to them by their status. So if it's such a good model -- and from what I see the business plan is going to help us get there, so we got three and a half years to get there. As I always said in the private sector, somebody has a legal -- the aggression to conclude your goals and objectives. In this case, it's our mandate.

And when I review the business plan, I can only imagine there would be results within three and a half years, or even sooner in some of those cases, because the next candidate that I know of that is very close to concluding the self-government status is Colville Lake. So if we achieve success in that conclusion of 90 percent, we only got 10 percent left. So I think with the proper leadership underneath this department, we can accomplish that 20 percent remaining in our term of this Assembly. And they would be the next candidate to capitalize on independence and growth as did the Deline Got'ine government.

So I raise those points there to help emphasize the interpretation of what I see within this business plan to cover the term of this Assembly so that we can have outcomes 36 months from now. That's all I got for this chapter there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.