Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It certainly will not provide you with the blueprint for your economic salvation, but it certainly will provide you with a road map and some detail stats. If you so choose to move forward in partnership with our federal colleagues, to try to do exactly what my honourable colleague says, but if I may, Mr. Speaker, I want to remind everybody, under the new Nunavut government, 84 percent of the monies we are going to use in the budget come from the federal government.
Any dent we can make to become less dependent, is an important one. In the west there is somewhere around 70, 72 percent. We are both captives, if you want, at the benevolence of the federal government. Clearly, some have said it, Mr. Kakfwi and others have said it in Edmonton, there is clearly a need for the two new governments, this present one in its remaining three or four months, to move forward with an aggressive blueprint to try to make us less dependent. That is what the overall objective here is.
I have to say, in fairness, we also have to look at the existing programs and to look how we can manage them better. I believe we are trying to do that, how we can integrate them better and I believe that is what we are trying to do. There are some initiatives under way, like Mr. Antoine, like Mr. Dent, et cetera, that sometimes this government does not get the credit for. I am convinced that we are on the right track, not everybody will say it is perfect by any means, but we are certainly heading down the track of looking to be less dependent on the transfer payments we currently have. After all, Mr. Speaker, at the end of the day, that is the objective. Thank you.