Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are at present living it and working it daily. As Members know, our Ministers have become very vocal on the whole diamond issue and they have been very aggressive. That is part of the strategy to do that in order to catch national attention, and we have to work when we travel into the south to make sure that we do get press. We are getting press when we go south now, to make southern Canadians aware of the whole issue. But as I said earlier this evening, Minister Kakfwi and Minister Todd are going to meet with Minister Martin and Minister Stewart on Monday, and it depends on what comes out of that meeting, but there is a strategy in place that we either take option B or option C, for example. If the federal government is not too cooperative, then we will do other things, but if they are cooperative then we will continue down that merry road. As I say, it is fluid, it is a liquid document and we have an opportunity in Vancouver in the middle of next month at the APEC meeting also to get major press on the whole diamond issue. It depends on the responses that we get from the federal government that drives what else we do. So we do have the contacts in southern Canada to be able to get press on this issue to educate southern Canadians. Thank you.
Don Morin on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 22nd, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 21st, 1997
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
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