Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today's Globe and Mail had a lengthy article in its business section on the explosion of the Dia Met Minerals Limited shares on the Vancouver and Toronto stock exchange. The share prices of Dia Met closed yesterday at $45.87 per share. Mr. Speaker, no where in this article is it mentioned that the land being staked is in the Dogrib area and that we will soon be claiming our rights to that land.

Mr. Speaker, the author of this article, the Globe and Mail's mining reporter, Alan Robinson, said that "this caribou pasture is now being valued at $1.6 billion." The president of Tegwaan Securities Corporation of Toronto is quoted as saying, "Get a wheelbarrow, get up there, there are riches waiting for everyone." Mr. Speaker, the caribou pasture and riches waiting for everyone is on Dogrib land. I am quite amazed and horrified to think that our land is being invested down south to Canadians and international capitalists in this manner. It is as if our land, the Dogrib land, is without people and without any importance except to the profit of the mining and investment community.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to send a message to the mining and investment business that my people have hunted and fished on this land for thousands of years and we plan to continue this lifestyle. Secondly, we will be negotiating...