Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, to get back to the business of this House, I feel that this government has to do more to ensure that we are receiving the maximum benefit from the oil and gas and diamond activity that is happening in the Northwest Territories. I feel that we have to do more to ensure that industry is living up to its obligations. They put in place benefit agreements and socio-economic agreements, but yet, Mr. Speaker, there is a large segment of our population who are not benefiting from these oil and gas activities.

Mr. Speaker, I am talking about the youth, people between the age of 16 and 25. Those people have to have a feeling of ownership of what is going on around them. They have to have that opportunity of getting that first job and being able to work their way into a specific trade or having the opportunity to be able to take advantage of the opportunities that are there.

We have a lot of young people in our communities who have the potential, but because they do not have that experience on a resume, they are not getting those jobs. I think we have to push industry a little bit to make sure, through this government, through the training and resource dollars we have, to offer training programs -- that we open up that door for those young people in our society to give them that opportunity.

I spent some eight years in the oil and gas industry. I started at the bottom and worked my way up. I was given that opportunity and I made a career out of it. I think that is all we can ask for from this government and for the people that we represent to ensure they have that opportunity like a lot of us have had.

I think industry has to realize that the developments they have are for the future generations that we keep talking about. I think we have to also realize that the opportunities that these developments bring have to be meaningful. We cannot have all the development and start looking at the statistics with regard to how much royalties we are going to get. We have to look at the social implications of what is happening around us, also with regard to oil and gas and diamonds. We see the social problems in our communities. We see the housing shortages in our larger centres because of these developments but as a government, we do not have the resources to take them on.

So with that, Mr. Speaker, I hope the government really thinks about this and I will be asking the Minister questions on this later. Thank you.