As a specific example, the Kelowna meeting demonstrated a consensus, I would say, by all participants about the importance of certain areas, such as housing and on-reserve water quality. Water is an issue, infrastructure is an issue--a subject of previous audits, not a subject of discussion in the audit context today.
The national leader of the Assembly of First Nations and the current Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs have worked cooperatively in seeing a renewed water strategy for first nations come about. It was announced, I believe, in March 2006 by the national chief and the minister. There's a theme that is compatible with the list of priorities. It's compatible with the current government's priorities; it's among the objectives that were present at Kelowna and with which the government has indicated its concurrence. And it finds a place in the Auditor General's work over recent years. That cooperation will be very useful to advancing the work in that area.
The government announced yesterday that a blue ribbon panel of experts will travel the country and bring specific recommendations to the government for the development of a legislative framework to ensure certainty over the management of drinking water in first nations. We anticipate that work will draw heavily on provincially resident expertise because of where water is managed in the non-aboriginal world. We look forward to a high level of cooperation from the provinces and territories.