Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there's an immense challenge to all of us in the North as a result of the growth of the oil and gas industry in the Northwest Territories and this government has a responsibility to ensure that benefits flow to people in the North. To try to manage the impacts, there is a Mackenzie Valley development plan that has been set up within the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development and we have been concentrating on strategic efforts on how we could make sure that we increase cooperation with DIAND and see what they're doing. They have an office there called the Pipeline Readiness Office. We're in the process of working with our deputy ministers to get them together to look at what we can do.

We also had Terriplan do a strategic plan for us for our officials. Mainly we're working with our deputy minister at this time. We do have personnel in some regional communities that would do it, but we wanted an overall, coordinated approach on how we're going to do it and part of it would be how this communication flows. At this time we're listening to the people in the communities, we're working with them and there are a number of different issues that are going on but we need an overall, strategically coordinated plan to do that. Thank you.