Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Premier, for your comments.
It was good to see you a couple of weeks ago when we were with the Prime Minister in Inuvik celebrating the start of the construction on the completion of the Dempster Highway, which will bring the road system in Canada from coast to coast to coast. It was a great day of celebration in that community. It has been good to see you in Ottawa as well as a true champion of the Northwest Territories in standing up for the people here and advancing their interests. We certainly appreciate that.
I noted with interest Mr. Bevington's comments about how the bill wasn't large enough. He wanted more clauses added to it, in contrast to his previous comments that it's too big. But I wanted to talk briefly about the five regional aboriginal groups that participated in the agreement, that participated in the negotiations and signed the devolution agreement. Could you describe the involvement of the aboriginal groups in the process in regard to how they interacted with your government and how they were participants in the devolution process?