Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to say that I do recognize that it is slightly more complicated with the oil and gas industry than it has been in the diamond industry. We may not be able to arrive at the same kind of formal socio-economic agreements that we have seen in the diamond industry. But I hope that the Minister and the Premier will continue to lobby the pipeline companies, lobby the oil and gas companies and say, listen if you want to make this thing go ahead and you want to make this thing go ahead quickly, it is going to require partnership with Northerners.
It is going to require doing everything in your power to use northern labour, northern manufacturers, northern businesses and if we cannot get formal socio-economic agreements...I hope it is made at least clear to them that things will go a lot more smoothly if they include us in the process.
The last thing I would like to ask the Minister about is the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy that his department has spent a lot of time on and has been consulting, I think quite heavily, with the federal government, with Martin and with the Minister of DIAND.
We saw the Minister sort of roll this out for the first time at the intergovernmental forum in Hay River and I think he felt it was key to get the feedback and the participation of all the aboriginal groups in the strategy so that there was some buy-in and there was ownership. I thought that was a fundamental and key first step.
But I would like to ask the Minister, what kind of response he has been getting, not so much from the federal government at this point, but from some of the other aboriginal groups and aboriginal leaders with regards to the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy?