Mr. Speaker, the first thing I would like to do is to get our government to spend more money in the NWT and less of it south of the 60th parallel.

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Secondly, Mr. Speaker, I have been known as one of those people who have said on many occasions that we have to make the pie bigger. You heard the Government Leader yesterday announcing that there is a lot of interest in mining in the NWT at the present time. You heard her announce that there is going to be some drilling taking place in the Beaufort, in the Delta. Those are large-scale things that hopefully will employ a lot of northern people.

Tourism remains still an industry that is quite large. It employs a lot of people, so I will be trying to enhance the tourism industry. We are hoping that we are going to be able to start marketing arts and crafts out of the NWT and buy up more of those things as a government and keep more of those people busy who are presently not able to sell their arts and crafts.

In the new year MLAs will be getting a letter from myself encouraging them, when they are in Yellowknife, or when I am in their constituency, to sit down with me to discuss an economic plan for their own particular constituency. I am prepared to meet with MLAs on a regional basis, as well, if they want to talk about regional economic development. I expect the MLAs in this Legislative Assembly to be a part of telling us how to promote the economy of the Northwest Territories as I think they have just as big a stake in it as we do, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.