Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I too will have some more specific questions as we get into the detail. One broad area that I wanted to bring some highlight to and perhaps leave a question with Mr. Handley when he answers us in a omnibus answer, and it relates to the Non-Renewable Resource Strategy. The package is valued at about $230 million, a package of potentials and strategies and ideas that was done largely to satisfy -- I believe there was a request from our friends in Ottawa to say, "Okay, what is it that your new government needs and sees as priorities? Where do you need the assistance?"

That document has just recently been finalized, but it has been in circulation with us and with Ottawa for some months. I would stand to be corrected, Mr. Chairman, but so far in terms of real cash and real investment from Ottawa, the only thing I am aware of that may have resulted is the $3.7 million that Ottawa has invested as a partner in the winter road projects in the Sahtu region. Those are excellent investments, but they pale in comparison to what we felt was a good plan.

About the most I have heard in terms of follow-through with that is that if there is going to be a further response from Ottawa on that proposal, it is not going to be in the fashion of a basket of EDA projects as the North has known EDA projects over the last couple of decades. My understanding is that it is going to be more individual sector-specific agreements, which I am led to believe will also require the negotiation and involvement with a number of other sister departments in Ottawa. It seems that there will be greater separation between things, they will be more independent.

I wonder, Mr. Chair, just how much more diverse and difficult is it going to be to manage these things as we get involved in different layers of accountability, have to train, if you will, new Ottawa or federal people about how things work up here, get them on side. It just sounds like it is going to be a much more cumbersome process. I will look forward to some explanation from the Minister of just where we are going in terms of that larger, longer-term investment strategy that we hope Ottawa is going to come onside with.

That is basically the opening comment and larger big-brush issue that I would like to explore, Mr. Chairman.