Thank you. One has been ensuring that as a Minister I have been directly involved in promoting oil and gas activity, in Calgary by meeting with oil companies and letting them know that communities are interested, prepared to do business, that as a government, we are encouraging oil and gas exploration. We have indicated our interest in trying to simplify the environment so that there are less regulations and red tape that oil and gas companies have to go through in order to do business in the Northwest Territories. We costed it out last year that a drilling program in Alberta is anywhere from $300,000 to $400,000 more expensive just across the border in the Northwest Territories because of federal regulations that these companies have to go through. That is one of the reasons that they have stayed south.
We have indicated to them that we want to take over oil and gas administration from Ottawa, we are looking at ways to try to do that, for instance by setting up a pilot project in the Sahtu. We have promoted direct contact between communities that have lands which are available, that are in the communities, where oil companies have actually bid on parcels of land. We have worked with communities to help them prepare to do business and give advice on how to do business, that in the posturing sometimes, we have actually discouraged and driven away oil and gas companies, so we have worked actively with both sides to encourage as much activity as possible. Activity that would provide maximum benefits, jobs training for communities.