It doesn't appear to be that we are making much progress there. I know that we have our negotiators, but we still haven't heard much about what's going on in that area. So while I support and I know that everyone here supports the economic gains and economic benefits that will come from the pipeline, it is really with heavy heart, because we have no guarantee that we are going to get our share of the resource revenues that we want to see and that we still don't have power and control over things that we need to have in order to make the right public policies and guidelines and regulations that we need to have in place, not to mention the money that we need to have to build the social and economic infrastructures to get ready for these megaprojects like pipeline development.

So, Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to put those two thoughts into this debate, but on balance I am going to support this motion because I just think it is important to give the Premier and the Minister of Finance as they travel to Ottawa to show to the government and people in Ottawa that we mean business and that this is very important to us, and that if they want to see the pipeline go through that they have to sit down and work out deals with us on resource revenue sharing. As well, Mr. Speaker, I want to make it clear that we, as a Legislature, should not lose sight of the fact that we really need to have devolution of provincial-like powers, but it is about time because we are ready and we are able. We need to push them forward, and also I need to make clear that we really have an obligation as this Legislature and all aboriginal governments that we bring along all our brothers and sisters together, not one region without the other and that everybody gets their claims settled and their agreements from the federal government so that everybody feels like and everybody has what they need to feel like they are a full participant in these great discoveries and great adventures into pre-pipeline NWT. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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