Mr. Speaker, perhaps I could recount last night. Madam Premier and myself met with Shell Oil, who were up here for a visit yesterday. They told me, at the end of the meeting, that in previous years they had not known who to do business with and primarily they had liaised with the federal government. They told us last night that obviously this is where they should be dealing. I think we are making inroads into saying that this is the government that you should be dealing with in the Northwest Territories. I think we also have to respect the fact that many aboriginal organizations feel the federal government is the government they wish to liaise with. When it comes down to issues of CAEDS, where it is a federal program, aboriginal organizations look to the federal government.

At the conference Mr. Bailey attended, there was recognition that there is confusion between who is doing what and who they are doing it with in the Northwest Territories. There was a discussion on the strategy to coordinate development in the northern parts of Canada, in northern Quebec and in the Yukon as well, so we each know the ground that each other is staking out. I would like to be able to respond to Mr. Patterson and say, "Yes, this is the group that you should be dealing with, the Government of the Northwest Territories will set all the policies and we will set the guidelines and say what the rules are," but, Mr. Speaker, we do not have all that legislation at our disposal. There are things that the federal government is involved in. We have to accept that. When Mr. Patterson was Government Leader, he was keen on the responsibilities devolving from the federal government to the Government of the Northwest Territories. That is the way we are going to gain total control. In the meantime, we have to recognize there are many interests out there and we should be trying to cooperate with all of them. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.