Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I do recognize my honourable colleague's frustration as he has expressed it many times in this House. I do appreciate it and I am trying to explain to the best of my ability what we are trying to do here. I am sure there are all kinds of reports out there, the scone report, this report, that report, et cetera the previous governments have put forward. I do not see what we are doing here in that light. I see it as an over all initiative, to build the case for a new relationship with a federal government because you simply must have it.

You simply need to find a way in the long run to find new revenues to maintain and increase the level of services to your constituents. Thank is what this is all about. I do not have today the cost of previous governments' expenditures in economic strategies. I do not have that. I am sure the previous governments as other governments have done these kinds of things. What I am trying to do is to put together a blue print, a road to new revenues. To build the case, to defend and to discuss with Mr. Martin the Finance Minister and Ms. Stewart the Minister of Indian Affairs the fundamental need for a new fiscal relationship with the territories so that we can get into the revenue window as they say and do something constructive about it.

If I may Mr. Speaker, I want to remind everybody 75 percent of the monies we spend come from the federal government. Seventy five percent, we need to find a way in which to be less dependent. That is what this is all about. Nothing more, nothing less. Now I cannot answer my colleague's question today about how much money has been spent by previous governments on previous economic strategies. Thank you.