Let me make it clear from the outset, I'm not suggesting that we go in and spend a lot of money on public infrastructure without there being significant benefits to northerners in any development. I want to say that from the outset. And, I recognize the importance of the claimant groups and the complications that relate particularly to mineral development. We have in place a working committee made up of Mr. Ted Blondin, who is representing the Dogrib people, I believe, Joe Allen, who represents the Kitikmeot people, the Chamber of Mines, the Chamber of Commerce, the department of EM&PR and myself.

This group is kind of like a small working group trying to determine how we would approach the federal government to assist us in a joint initiative to find the dollars to put the infrastructure in place, should it be requested by the industry and should it be required in terms of a mining development such as Izok Lake.

I'm trying to keep as many of the stakeholders involved as possible on an ongoing basis in developing a strategy to try to find these dollars, if they're required and requested. That is what we're working on right now. We have a working committee, it is fairly tight so we can get things done. It does represent the aboriginal claimant groups, particularly in the Lac de Gras and the Izok Lake areas. It also represents industry and the NWT Chamber of Commerce as well. We have the federal government on that committee too, the local DIAND assistant deputy minister.

We're working diligently with those groups to develop a strategy as to how we would move forward in approaching the federal government, should and if the requests come for some public infrastructure support for these facilities.