Mr. Speaker, I will say it again. I have not determined what I will do next. Yesterday, CASAW and Steel said they were boycotting the process; they are not going to participate. I have one union that is willing to participate, the UNW. One option, which I have not yet selected, and on which I am awaiting further advice from interested persons, would be to go ahead with the committee with the union that is willing to participate. The others are refusing to participate, and there does not seem to be much that I can do about it, after having worked hard to try to get them to buy into the process. However, Mr. Speaker, that is only one option.
Another option would be to recognize that because of the refusals of the two major unions in the Northwest Territories to participate, I would recognize that the committee, as envisioned, simply will not work; therefore, I would have to go back to the drawing board and develop a bill in some other manner. The process was designed to involve workers and industry in coming up with a mining safety bill, but if the workers will not participate, then, obviously, the committee is not going to work.
What I want to make clear to the honourable Member is, in light of these developments yesterday I am now going to have to figure out a course of action which will result in a new mining safety act because everybody -- union, organized and unorganized industry, and our government -- recognizes that the present bill is dated and in need of updating and modernization. My object is to get a new mining safety bill, and I will continue to work hard in that direction. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.