Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question is about the intergovernmental relations and strategies. One of the concerns you hear about is the way we deal with groups, organizations and institutions, that we do it fairly and not try to pit one side against the other, especially with politically sensitive issues, such as pipelines and other projects out there.

With the positions some of these groups take, we cannot comfort everyone, but I think we have to realize that we are there to represent everybody. We cannot play one party off against the other. I would just like to ask the Premier, what are we doing to improve our relationships with organizations, aboriginal organizations, in light of some of the positions some groups have taken on the issues that have come forward, by way of different pipeline initiatives, regional concepts or ideas?

I feel we cannot and should not put ourselves in a position where we are compromising the ability of government to basically represent all interests without fundamentally taking one stand and not allowing ourselves to keep our minds open to other options or alternatives that may be out there, that we do not support one initiative over and above another.

I would like to ask the Premier, what are we doing to improve our relationships with political organizations, either the aboriginal organizations or institutions outside of government that have different opinions and a whole different philosophy on how to deal with things?