Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Minister communicating with the Department of Transportation to come to a realization that there is chipsealing happening there. My argument, Mr. Chairman, is not just for my communities. My argument, Mr. Chairman, is how government approaches its responsibility. It's an attitude that this government goes and runs with. You should feel privileged that we are delivering programs and services to you. We are doing things and you should be happy. That is the wrong attitude from government. It conjures negative feelings in communities that replicates itself. It contributes to the low self-esteem of our communities and our people. We must start changing our attitudes.

I am not just talking about Fort Resolution and Lutselk'e. Every community has problems with dust issues. How we approach this particular responsibility is troubling to me. We never thought it through. We let our financial restrictions dictate how we think. Every community needs it. So what's the answer? We have the equipment, so we will do them first when we should have thought there is an issue here. There is an issue with dust and how it relates to our health. Let's determine what the dust levels are across the Territories in communities. Let's discuss with the communities, here is your dust level, this is more information, this is how much it's going to cost. We don't have the money now, but we will help you do your job so we can address the issue as soon as possible, not 10 years down the road, not 20 years down the road, but as soon as possible.

Sometimes we have to take a leap of faith at a global level. A good percentage of the world did it with Kyoto. We don't know what it means. We don't know what the effect is going to be with us as individuals and societies, the cost to our governments and institutions, but it was the right thing to do so we went with it. Not all of us agreed with it, but as a society, we went with it. This is something similar to that, just localized. That's what I am talking about, Mr. Chairman.

In fact, Mr. Chairman, I would like to call progress until we can deal with this more effective through a motion, so that we can change the department's way of dealing with this particular issue and so we can go to the communities and let them know we are dealing with their issue of dust control and that we will be dealing with it in a coordinated long-term plan.

The schedule that was given to me, half the communities are not even on it, yet those communities have dust problems in their communities as well. Because of our limited thinking, not thinking outside of the box, we are denying them the hope and opportunity to do something about that problem. That's what I am talking about, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.