Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think when the diamond mining companies are coming up here requesting participation and cooperation from our government to help them lobby the federal government for permits, at that point, I believe they were not interested in coming up with socio-economic agreements either. The secondary industry was a good example. Mr. Todd is known to have this great quote. He says "We will introduce taxes that will choke a mule." So we do have some cards that we can play in that area.

I want to address the upcoming potential and see what the Minister is doing to ensure that people are ready. As you know, Mr. Chairman, the application for land use permits to build a pipeline down the Mackenzie is in the works. Sometimes we look at, to use an analogy, we look at the centre ice so much that we miss the whole ice sheet. Somebody told me that outside of the pipeline itself, there is a $33 billion spin-off industry that is associated with the pipeline. I want to know what the department is doing to prepare people to take advantage of that.

An example might be, what is his relationship with the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development in terms of training people and helping little businesses get started? Let's say a crew of welders that could go to the companies and say "We will weld you a section of the pipe."Or surveyors will go help survey one rib of the pipe. As you know, there will be a pipeline and the theory and vision right now is that there is going to be a bunch of little pipes that are going to feed into the big ones. That is part of the $33 billion spin-off industry. I would like to know what the department is doing to prepare Northerners to take advantage of the employment and business opportunities associated with the $33 billion spin-off industry. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.