Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about a number of issues that are related to resource revenue-sharing. Mr. Speaker, for sometime now we have been hearing that we are going to be going into a deficit soon unless we find another source of revenues and we are looking to resource revenue-sharing or a Northern Accord that would bring control and benefits of northern resources to the North. I was interested to hear the Minister speak about the Community Government Leaders' Conference because I was also there. I heard aboriginal leaders saying that it is going to be difficult to get a resource revenue-sharing agreement because that is the last ace in the hole for the aboriginal leadership.

I think that this government needs to do something concrete to earn the trust of the aboriginal leadership if we are going to attain a Northern Accord. But what are we doing in this area, instead our government is talking about making it easier for development, making it faster for development to occur. Why should areas like my constituents who have no land claim, why should they want to speed up development? They do not. They want to slow it down so that they can be better prepared for when development occurs so that they can actually benefit from development. What else are we doing? We are passing Bill 15, five new seats to the larger communities and we know this has to be passed, but at the same time we need to provide the smaller communities with a comfort zone. We need to provide them with something concrete, now. Not just promises that something is going to happen after the next Legislature comes into effect and you have those new five extra MLAs. Mr. Speaker, what I am trying to say is that if this government hopes to attain a resource revenue-sharing agreement or better known as a Northern Accord, then we have to provide that comfort zone to the regions and the smaller communities now. Thank you.

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