Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development is the lead Minister on the consultation and working with the mining industry, as well as other stakeholders to make sure that we get our fair share of resource development, to ensure that we do move ahead in a timely fashion, so that we can develop our resources and northerners can make those decisions. Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity a few years back to drive south and as soon as you pass the 60th parallel going south, there is very little room on the highways in Alberta. They are all full of oil field trucks, service trucks, logging trucks or maintenance trucks, but the highways are full, the people are working, the hotels are full and the minute you drive north, past the 60th parallel, everything dies. There is a reason for that and once again, I must say the reason for that is Alberta, Premier Klein and the people of Alberta are in charge of their own resources. They make their own decisions and they know how they want to develop. In the Northwest Territories, who do we have in charge? Bureaucrats out of Ottawa. It is a shame. Here we are, 1998 and there are still some bureaucrats sitting in Ottawa making a decision on a diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.
--Shame! Shame!
That has got to change and we have to work together to make sure that changes, so we bring those decisions home as soon as possible, rightfully, where they belong. Thank you.
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