Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Finance, Mr. Todd, regarding his initiatives of trying to find new ways to tax non-renewable resources in regard to commercial wildlife, harvesting, forestry, fishing.

Has the Minister considered the approach of land claims when he talks about taxing resources? A lot of the claims I am aware of where the aboriginal groups own the forestry products as land owners. They have exclusive harvesting rights in regard to being able to harvest fish and also exclusive rights to certain species when it talks about commercially harvesting those species, but in your statement you mentioned taxing those same resources that are presently owned by aboriginal organizations through land claim settlements. Have you taken into account claim settlements and exactly how these taxes will implement or have a barrier on existing aboriginal groups who own those resources at the present time.