Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member is absolutely correct. We have to tailor our messages to different audiences, especially in the Northwest Territories. Some people are available to them, the web sites so, that is one way of doing that. We also have employee newsletters, and we also have the use of aboriginal languages, is another way that is very important and in the southern Communication Act, as well we work with developing working relationships with southern newspapers and making ourselves available so we can communicate throughout southern Canada as well. Dealing with all the different people is challenging, but we are able to move ahead on that issue now.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The critical issues that this government has to communicate, not only with its employees, but people of the Northwest Territories, our constituents, southern Canada and even internationally, that the Northwest Territories is coming of age. It is the last frontier of this country. We are ready and we are on the verge of moving ahead to improve our economic conditions in the Northwest Territories. We are open for business, but when you come into the Northwest Territories to do business that means partnerships and that means that you do business with northern residents and northern residents have to benefit. As well, we do in the Northwest Territories have social conditions and social problems that double, statistically, the rest of the country, but we are working to solve those problems and we are moving ahead on the creation of two new territories. So there are many issues underneath, for example, improving economic conditions, improving social conditions and preparing for the creation of two new territories.

Mr. Miltenberger, I could be talking for a long time about each and every one of those, and I think it is very clear in the south we communicate that the Northwest Territories is a political entity on its own. We do have our own Legislature, we are capable of making our own decisions in the north and we are able and willing to do that, and we will do it. We do not need bureaucrats in Ottawa to do that for us. We are at the table with the other provincial jurisdictions, and we plan on staying there and making sure our voice is heard and the message from the north is heard. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You should have copies of that material by tomorrow at the latest, late tomorrow. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Some of the things are in final stage that are dealing with government and how government deals with each other through different departments. But the communications strategy, as well as the background to it and all that information is always a liquid document that should be added to and constantly updated when new ideas are brought into it. It is never a finished document so it is constantly added to, so Members have ability to have input into that. If we could find time for a meeting, there was a commitment by myself made to meet with Members on this issue as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have requested our employees to submit recommendations to us or let us know what they think of the newsletter and how we can change it or work with it to make it better and make it so they can have some ownership of it. We have it off and running already and so far I hear it has been fairly successful and hopefully, when we hear back form our employees, we will get more input into it as well. Thank you.

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.