Mr. Speaker, I will make no comment about my colleagues nice new suit he has on today. Anyway it's a shining example to everybody. Mr. Speaker, I think we have made it clear and we have been consistent, not just this last week, but certainly the last year and a half with respect to our government's position on northern diamonds. Diamond sorting and valuation should be done, must be done in the Northwest Territories to ensure that we have an accurate reflection of the value of the diamonds so that Canadians can get their equal share, if you wish, of royalties and taxation.
To say I am disappointed is an understatement. That a company of this size would make these kinds of comments without any consultation with this goverment, and I do not know what consultation they had with the federal government, but I was certainly disappointed. I am looking forward to meeting, and I am assuming that he wants to meet with us, with Mr. Rothwell later on this week or next week, where both myself and Mr. Kakfwi will be clear with him the ramifications with continuing along this corporate strategy of suggesting that northern diamonds should be sorted on site, in a small and concrete way, and the rest of the jobs and opportunities that will prevail from sorting diamonds from marketing and sales purposes will be done offshore. Surely that would be unacceptable, not just to northerners, I would expect that to be unacceptable to most Canadians.