Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is a lot of concern out there by private businesses and aboriginal organizations. There is a northern coalition of business and aboriginal leaders that has been formed. They are planning to go to Ottawa and lobby on their own behalf and for the people of the North as well.

We are supporting them. We are going to be going up there March 11th, 12th and 13th. That is one lobbying effort from people in the North to try to continue to tell our federal counterparts that we need resources up here to help us develop our infrastructure, to help us get ready for the impending development that is about to happen up here. Our lobbying effort is very good. We have a lot of good information that we want to share with our southern counterparts.

I just want to mention that in December, I had the opportunity to travel to Ottawa and I made a presentation to the Liberal Western Caucus of the Members of Parliament and Senators. In the presentation, I raised the Non-Renewable Resource Development Strategy, that we need the funds. The advice I received is that there is no pot of dollars, no $250 million sitting there. We have to try to change our strategy and try to go for smaller chunks of dollars from different departments.

Perhaps that strategy will work. We are doing that and hopefully, if we keep putting the effort on there, we will be able to convince the people in Ottawa to see what we are trying to do here and perhaps give us the necessary resources we need to develop the North. Thank you.