Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My statement today is about my recent trip to Tel Aviv for the Second International Rough Diamond Conference. Mr. Speaker, the Northwest Territories has become a major player, as Mr. Ootes alluded to earlier in his statement.

We are in the beginning stages of a very young industry in Canada. We showed some imagination and commitment to create a secondary industry out of the diamond mines that exist in the Northwest Territories.

We have to continue in that line of thinking, towards developing a jewellery manufacturing industry that will complement the diamond industry, which will hopefully work towards the establishment of a tourism industry in the Northwest Territories.

I think there are opportunities in the Northwest Territories to develop industries where people from all over the Northwest Territories can be involved in the industry, as supported by their respective governments and the Government of the Northwest Territories.

So I challenge the Members of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, the government, and the people to throw on their imagination caps and start coming up with ways of developing the jewellery and secondary industries in the Northwest Territories to complement the future of tourism. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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