Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for that entirely unexpected question.
The implementation of self-government in this particular circumstance will be very different from the implementation of self-government in other circumstances. This is an enormous area with relatively few people who are by and large involved in a traditional lifestyle, with the exception that they particularly want to get more involved in oil and gas exploration. Self-government in this particular model would be one that would be more municipal; it is envisioned as being more municipal than it would be federal.
Something we would want to keep in mind in this whole self-government consideration is that if 5 per cent of Canadians are of aboriginal ancestry, and yet something like 40 or 50 per cent of Canadians in jail are of aboriginal ancestry, then somewhere along the line we have gone horribly wrong. If we need to make a leap of faith to try to right that wrong then it is incumbent on us to do exactly that.