Mr. Speaker, I agree that it is confusing, particularly for people who come from board rooms where the dollar on the bottom line is the big deal. They make decisions on millions of dollars by fax and telephone. They are used to

doing business very, very quickly. They are used to

being told that yes, they own, they have the land, it is free hold title, or it's theirs for 50 years, et cetera. Then they come to the Northwest Territories and see the different stages of land claim negotiations that aboriginal people are in with the federal government and they start to worry about tenure.

Mr. Speaker, I have to say this. To my knowledge, there has never been a mining company kicked off a piece of property by someone in the Northwest Territories. There may have been some influence put on them such as: "You are on our land, so we expect you to hire some of our people." That's straight economics. I've yet to listen to an aboriginal group who are not going to respect leases that are already out there. I think it's more confusion on behalf of the mining companies than anything else. I've yet to see anything concrete that has risked their investment in the Northwest Territories.

Perhaps we have a role to play there. Perhaps we need to be the ball that bounces between the people who have claims on the land and the people who want to do business in the Northwest Territories. Maybe there's a mediation role that we can play. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.