Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Ootes.
Mr. Speaker, no disrespect to my honourable colleague, Mr. Krutko, on his initiative of pushing the pipeline. When diamonds were discovered, there was great initiative by this government to spend a lot of energy and resources on secondary industries surrounding the diamond industry.
I am afraid that with the recent developments in the oil and gas industry in the Northwest Territories, that might be repeated. This government has put other industries such as forestry, tourism, manufacturing, and fishing on the back burner. I would like to get some assurances from the Minister that with this new gas pipeline initiative, those renewable resource industries are not going to be put on the back burner, so those people who depend on these industries are not going to be second class citizens to the diamond industry and the development of oil and gas. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.