Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my Member's statement today is in the area of regulatory reform. Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Hay River North spoke about the regulatory issues that are affecting businesses in his community and will affect operations down the Mackenzie Valley. Mr. Speaker, we know that some time ago our government was involved with the federal government and other regulatory bodies in looking at streamlining the regulatory process used, for example, on the pipeline. We know there was some reporting back and forth, some work done, but I would like to know and will be asking questions later on during question period, what has become of that work and are they continuing to move forward, have they responded to the industry that had a look at that report and made comments back.

Mr. Speaker, in the Northwest Territories, being resource rich, we need to know and industry needs to know if we in fact have found a regulatory process that's going to be stable and that everybody can start looking at and counting on as being a final product. So during question period I will have questions for the appropriate Minister. Thank you.

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