Mr. Chairman, I am half on side with this motion. Here is where this is sort of normal around here. It is never black and white. We are always dealing in sort of middle shades of pink. I am very much a proponent of the GNWT having the capacity and the resources to deal with impacts of development. The administration of this $500 million tenure fund is a big piece of work. I am not going to challenge the department on the need for this person. But what I am not prepared to do, and here is why I am going along with Mr. Ramsay, is just to say, okay, here is your approval. Go ahead. In such an uncertain volatile decision-making climate for the pipeline itself, we don't know if this project is real. Imperial Oil is saying it isn't economic. The federal government isn't giving any signals about whether or not they are really interested in it. We still have significant hurdles to climb before this project is a given.

Mr. Chairman, in the rest of the supplementary, by my count, among four other departments, there is $1.16 million in other directly related pipeline activities that the government is asking for approval to spend money on. I don't want to get in the way of any of it except for the fact that we don't have a real project yet. Especially given that there is considerable focus on the regulatory decisions, the regulatory process really getting underway, and the no go on that seems to be in November, just two to three weeks from now.