Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, you, Mr. Dent and myself were accosted last night by a grizzled prospector with that strange glint in his eye that often exists among those people who search for gold and diamonds. When a local person seeks out people who have a voice, they expect that voice to be expressed. We heard some concerns. If, over the next year, someone suddenly appears off the tundra having found three diamonds, three in a sense that they are floating there in the debris, that would set off a kind of movement and every drifter around the world would suddenly arrive in Yellowknife, expecting to become very rich.

This sounds a little far out and far-fetched until you think about it, because that was exactly the problem that existed in the Yukon during the gold rush. People from all over the world suddenly appeared and went into the wilderness and many of them never came back. We have such a problem with adventurers who come here, get lost and cost this government a great deal of money.

My suggestion to the government, on behalf of this grizzled prospector, is that we should do some thinking about what could happen and what kinds of requirements prospectors should have before they venture out into a very inhospitable

and difficult place for the tenderfoot to survive for any length of time. Thank you.