Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. This government's charge for delivering programs and services such as health, education, housing, et cetera, while resource development happens, the royalties of those developments goes to the federal government. We, here in the GNWT working with our aboriginal partners, are spending a great amount of dollars developing plans and strategies to extract these resources, yet we do not get anything from the federal government. We do not receive any royalties.

If we do create a dollar, they take 80 cents. That does not seem fair. Yet the federal government is saying they are helping us. They are giving us a million dollars for roads, for bridges on winter roads, one percent of the total budget they are going to give us. That is treating us like children. This is not working.

Again, I ask, what will the government do to make things different? Are we going to continue negotiating or are we going to go down in Ottawa in masks to make a stand and say no? Or are we just going to give the key to Mr. Bobby Overvold here in DIAND's head office? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.