Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, through the Department of RWED and through my predecessors, there has been a lot of work done with regard to the excise tax. We are very concerned about it and if we got our way, we would not have that 10 percent excise tax. However, the federal Minister of Finance is responsible for this, and our Finance Minister has been raising this with the federal Finance Minister. Now we have a new federal Finance Minister, so we will also have to approach Minister Manley and try to ensure that he understands where we are coming from in this area. The Jewellery Association has also been pushing this and there has been lobbying by all fronts with the federal government to try to address this whole issue.

We will continue to pursue this 10 percent excise tax because it does not make any sense when we are producing diamonds, polishing and cutting them. We are not importing them from any other place. We are developing them right here and I think we should be able to make our case heard. Hopefully, there will be federal action on that. Thank you.