Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am confident that we have the attention of the federal government. We have the attention of a lot of Canadians as a result of work that the previous Premier has done and work that I've done as Premier, as well as Members, the business sector and my colleagues on Cabinet. We have made sure that our issues are on the radar screen across Canada.

Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of signals that I have to read between because we don't have concrete agreements on a lot of things. But when the Primer Minister appointed the Honourable Anne McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister, as the lead on the Mackenzie Valley pipeline file, that sent a strong signal to me that this is a very important issue to him and one that he hopes to achieve success on.

The second one is in the Throne speech and in discussions with me and with others earlier on, the Prime Minister has made a commitment to develop a northern strategy. In fact, our Member of Parliament has been named as the Minister of Northern Development. I think that sends a strong signal, and he has offered to do that in cooperation with northern governments, with ourselves, with aboriginal governments and generally with northerners. It says to me that the federal government is, at least at the political level, paying attention to what is going on in the North and have recognized the huge potential that the Northwest Territories has to contribute to this country of ours.

Mr. Speaker, I am confident we have the attention. Now the challenge before us is how to take that attention, that interest in the North, and translate it into real benefits for us as northerners. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.