Thank you.
Thank you also for raising the issue of consultation. I know Mr. Owen started his first questioning of the AFN representatives with this same question, but if what is happening could be viewed as an infringement upon constitutional rights, or existing aboriginal or treaty rights, the courts have held that sometimes such an infringement might be necessary, but in such a case there has to be justification, and there has to be consultation. And consultation in the truest sense of the word is not just posting on a wall what you're going to do to someone, or telling them, here's what's going to happen to you; consultation is a two-way dialogue where you accommodate some of what's put forward by the other party.
So was there any consultation that you know of in the development of this notion that the Auditor General should have the right to have control over first nations?