Thank you.
I would like to bring you a perspective of the modern treaty holders. I think a lot of what was said was quite helpful and we agree with. The Tlicho agreement is a modern treaty, protected under section 35, and it includes both self-government and land claims. It's the whole package together.
I had the privilege of sitting at the negotiating table for 10 years to help build that agreement. I had the opportunity to build into the Tlicho treaty what the “economic measures” are that form chapter 26 of that agreement. The way that chapter works is that it really sets out some large objectives. Then it talks about tools, about how you will get there. Fundamentally, I think, for the purposes of PSAB, one of those objectives was that Canada's programs, and also those of the Government of Northwest Territories, should be built to foster Tlicho self-sufficiency. It then goes into specific measures about how that self-sufficiency will be achieved, including following the preferential contracting policies intended to maximize local, indigenous, and other kinds of contracting opportunities.
When I sat at that table, PSAB was brought to us in that negotiation as, look, this is the kind of economic tool that Canada will use to ensure that you have this opportunity to participate in these large economic opportunities. But my experience has been, over the last....
The Tlicho are now, is it, 11 years post effective date?