Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Premier McLeod, for...[Technical difficulty--Editor]...in Yellowknife. I'm glad to have the hearings here, although I think with the volume of witnesses we have in front of us, our work is really cut out to accomplish this in one day.
There are many issues with this. Also there is a great deal of agreement with...[Technical difficulty--Editor]...part of the devolution bill, or Bill C-15 . We are discussing the bill and not really the agreement. I think that's the important part of the work I do in Parliament—to look at the bill, not the agreement, because the bill is actually what will govern many of the aspects of our life here in the north. We need to always keep that in mind, that the bill is what we're here for today.
Certainly one aspect of the bill that you've mentioned, and you've mentioned again in an article in the newspaper here today, was about a review of the terms of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act. You say it agrees to discuss devolving these powers within five years.
Is that your position on that?