Mr. Speaker, it is not the first time I have heard we do not know where we are going or there is no clear direction. We know where we are going, Mr. Speaker. We are going ahead. We are trying to get those people jobs. We are trying to create a better economy in the Northwest Territories. We have decentralized in order to get some of those smaller communities going. We still have our contribution programs going, but we are trying to get people into manufacturing. We are changing in housing and breaking down packages so manufacturers in the Northwest Territories can build items which can be used in our housing units. We are negotiating contracts so more people in the Northwest Territories get jobs from the money spent by the Government of the Northwest Territories.
Our business incentive policy is becoming more and more effective. More of our money is being spent in the Northwest Territories. In the resource industry, we know where we are going. We are suggesting a corridor between Yellowknife and Coppermine with a port at the end of it, whereby mines can get to those minerals. However, we are saying to the mining companies, "You have to hire in the north and you have to do business in the north." In the oil and gas area, in the Sahtu, there has been an agreement reached that there will be some seismic data shot next winter. That is encouraging. The people up there are saying to us, "After that, perhaps we will look at some land issuance and get some more wells being drilled in that particular area, but, we want to be included and we want to be hired."
In the Delta, the same sort of thing is going on. There is a possibility of a small diameter pipeline coming out of the Delta and going down to Norman Wells. Hondo Oil has just been in here talking to us and no one said no to Hondo Oil, but they were told the same thing, "You better do business in the Northwest Territories, and you better hire people from the Northwest Territories." In the renewable resource sector across the Northwest Territories, we are selling more fish. That is what we want to do. We are processing fish in the Northwest Territories. We are marketing more arts and crafts.
I know Mr. Dent is constantly giving me a hard time about the store in Toronto, but we are moving more products out of the Northwest Territories. That is what we intend to do. Mr. Speaker, perhaps we do not have a plan with "I"s dotted and "T"s crossed and we cannot tell you what is going to happen on Tuesday in August sometime, but we do cling to those principles of doing more business in the Northwest Territories, encouraging more people to get into business in the Northwest Territories, stopping the southerners coming in here and taking those jobs, and training our people so they can work in those industries, whatever they may be. We think we know where we are going. We are solidly behind the Northwest Territories, its people, its businesses and its communities. We will do whatever it takes to make sure the economy expands.
This thing changes drastically every week, Mr. Speaker. The last one was a question in the House today on Colomac Mine. That came out of the blue. Obviously, we are looking at that now and saying, "How can we turn that around to assist people in this area and get the Dogrib people back to work? How can we work it into the Dogrib's plan of generating electricity so they can sell their hydro power?" We believe we know the direction we are going in. Perhaps I have not been clear enough before, but, Mr. Speaker, that is where we are at, that is where we are going. We are going ahead. Thank you.