Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to hear the Minister commit to working on the excise tax issue. In talking to people in the Northwest Territories, both from the mining and from the manufacturing side, I have heard very little support for us moving forward with the act, so I hope the Minister will keep that in mind as we are going along here.

I think he is right. As more and more diamonds are found in Canada, it may become more of an issue to the federal government, but I hope we are going to work very quickly on this and very aggressively on the excise tax issue because again, our cost of operation is much higher here than it probably would be in Saskatchewan. If we can get our businesses established first, they have a leg up. I would hope we would work at this quite aggressively. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.