Again it makes me wonder exactly, is there a problem that we do not trust the people that we appoint to these committees to go out and collect the information and bring it forth. I believe that with all the people on this committees, they are Northerners. They are appointed by this House to sit on a committee on behalf of this government to go out and get the information and bring it back in the text of a northern perspective about northern problems.

But we are out there doing studies with southern institutions, southern firms to dictate to us in the North what we know best. We have been trying to get out of that cycle with Ottawa for years. Yet we as a government continue to practice that philosophy from the Northerners' point of view. Sorry, your views do not count. We have to use experts from the south to tell us what is good for us.

So I would like to ask the Minister exactly why is it that we as a government cannot implement reports and studies that we have put forth, we have spent money on, yet we continue to spend money on studies and reports from southern institutions. Why is it that we do not use northern people to give us this northern input on northern problems?