Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I understand the Minister to have said that he actually gets specific dollars from Cabinet for aboriginal people and that sometimes includes aboriginal people in the Northwest Territories. He does not receive dollars specifically for the Territories. The territorial government, the Yukon Government and Nunavut all have to, as provincial governments do, go to the respective federal Ministers in departments in trying to access required dollars for the programs and services that we are mandated to carry out.

Has he abandoned us? I would say definitely not. He continues to advocate for such things as the Intergovernmental Forum, for oil and gas development, for development of diamond mines, for the clean-up of the contaminated environmental areas in the Northwest Territories, and continues supporting us on issues like climate change and Kyoto, but many of those are actually responsibilities that are with other federal Ministers and not with Minister Nault. Thank you.