Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister and his department have all of the expertise, the professions, the people with the backgrounds to deal with socio-economic benefit agreements, and also to look at the development of benefit agreements. All I am asking for is a similar process that was used with the diamond industry.

We as a government had a socio-economic development agreement signed between the Government of the Northwest Territories and the industry. Will the Minister look at establishing a similar arrangement with the oil and gas industry up and down the Mackenzie Valley, to ensure that our government starts taking advantage of those developments? Will the...