Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think that we have not really done everything we can yet to exploit the existing opportunities we have. For instance, in all our communities we have women that sew, that produce crafts. We need to develop markets for them so that they can continue doing the things they do now, educate them about the kind of products that are in demand now so that, for instance, moccasins are no longer required in large numbers and what type of product is. We need to continue supporting people that want to trap because that is the most productive way in which
they live. It is counterproductive for us to let them live in the communities without making a living.
The existing jobs that we have, we have to try to protect them, keep our minds operating, continue looking for new mines to open and operate in an environmentally safe way, ways that would benefit local businesses, provide jobs and training. We will continue to work with oil and gas activities as I have said earlier. We need to work on tourism because we are a small jurisdiction and we absolutely have to work with the Yukon, Alberta and people in Nunavut to sell the north to tourists across the world. We need to work with western provinces in the area of trade and developing infrastructure so that we are not spending our scarce dollars on things that we can do in partnership with other jurisdictions. This, in the end, I think, will keep free whatever few additional dollars we may be able to find to put back into the social envelope, into education and training, into health and social services, because we know that we have to increase the base on those areas.
That is my view, that we have to recognize that we are small and that we have to maximize in the areas that we are good at, to maximize our dollars by sharing work and coordinating our efforts with other jurisdictions and our neighbours. Thank you.