Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I want to speak about working in cooperation, working together. Mr. Speaker, there are many challenges facing us in the Northwest Territories, one of which is non-renewable resource development. It is going to take the cooperation of aboriginal governments, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the people of the Northwest Territories working in cooperation to realize this. Knowing the federal government is going to be the biggest benefactor in resource development, we have to work together to get the best benefits as a group; and by saying "together," knowing when enough is enough. We cannot afford to develop the Northwest Territories if we are not going to accrue the benefits from it.
In that same spirit of cooperation, we have to take on other challenges that are facing us. Minister Antoine just spoke about National Chief Matthew Coon Come's speech on the health and well-being of aboriginal people being a major concern. It is no different in the Northwest Territories, Mr. Speaker.
We in the Northwest Territories are experiencing the clawback of non-insured health benefits. It is going to take the Government of the Northwest Territories and its aboriginal partners to fight the federal government in ensuring that further erosion of the non-insured health benefits does not occur, and also to clawback some of the erosion ourselves.
On tourism, we have to work together to develop a strategy and an economic base for our people to work together, so we could realize new monies coming into the Northwest Territories and utilize our natural resources, our renewable resources which benefit the people of the Northwest Territories by having aboriginal people working with governments and practicing a way of life that other people in the world would like to see and experience. I think we are almost there. We have to work together to realize that as well.
In essence, we seem to be fighting in this House, but we are just vigorously debating ways of achieving the goals that we...