Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Mr. Speaker, the federal Minister must be more responsive to the aspirations of northerners who are trying to survive from the imposed federal cuts to formula financing.
The people of the north are attempting to create some new wealth from the resource that is on our door step, only to find that a federal bureaucrat can, by the stroke of her pen, end our dream of some semblance of self-sufficiency. Mr. Speaker, I will not sit back and watch this once-in-a-lifetime diamond opportunity get lost in Ottawa politics. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.