Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories, we have been supporting the Kyoto Protocol. The reason for that is that we are told by people in the North that the climate is changing. We see it with our own eyes in a number of different things; shorter winters, or longer winters with this fall, and the migration routes of animals are changing, melting of permafrost. We actually see the temperature changing. Our elders tell us that this is happening.
As the Government of the Northwest Territories, we support this Kyoto Protocol for trying to do something with global warming. This is caused mainly by carbon dioxide emissions, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels. The reason why we support it is because it is the only coordinated global plan at this time that exists out there to control global greenhouse gas emissions. The responsibility for doing something about it, it is the only vehicle out there to try to deal with this issue.
We do not see any other way of trying to deal with this climate change out there. The Canadian government has the task of trying to implement a plan and we are waiting for this implementation. The honourable Member for Great Slave mentioned that a meeting, an important meeting that was supposed to be held this coming Monday on the 21st has been postponed a week to the 28th because consultations are still going on. We are anticipating some sort of implementation plan at that time. Thank you.