Thank you, Madam Chair. I have some general comments on the speaking notes from the Minister on stimulating the economy. I am very interested in this area, as we have spoken about creating opportunities and employment in the North a number of times. I believe we have a wealth of resources that we can use, but we are having some problems in the area of marketing or developing those. I would be interested to see if the department has any plans under way or is looking at areas of developing their renewable resources end, not in the area of mining.
Also, as Mr. Steen stated earlier, the work going on with the hunters and trappers is a valuable program and I am glad to see it has continued. That is an area there as well that we can continue to improve on and I hope that we do.
I think we can go a long way in alleviating a lot of the burden in the Territories by helping in the renewable resource area of developing, and relieve some of the burden that is placed on social assistance and so on that people have started to rely on heavily over the years. It would be good to see this department develop some initiatives to bring forward ideas of developing areas of renewable resources. Thank you.