Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I will tell you what the government has a responsibility to do. That is to go out and get a resource revenue deal for all the citizens of the Northwest Territories and devolution for all the citizens of the Northwest Territories and not to accept these piecemeal things from the federal government. This $500 million, I have said it before and I will say it again, is a smokescreen from the federal government to cloud the issue of resource revenue sharing. They don't want to deal with the Northwest Territories on resource revenue sharing, and this is the proof. Mr. Chairman, it doesn't cover off all the communities in the Northwest Territories. It is 21 or 22 of the communities. The other communities aren't covered off by this.
The responsibility of the territorial government is to look after everybody and to go out and get that deal. Mr. Chairman, we haven't had any proof that that is getting any closer to being accomplished.
I also wanted to question the Minister, while I have the floor here. The position of a senior advisor would probably run in the neighbourhood of $95,000 to $100,000 a year. In this, the compensation and benefits are pegged at $48,000, the breakdown that I have. Underneath the breakdown of the funds that are required, the $136,000, there is $75,000, Mr. Chairman, that is for contract services. Basically, what I see happening, Mr. Chairman, is the government going out and hiring a senior advisor to be a contract administer to go out and hire somebody to do the actual work. That is what I see. I haven't been proven otherwise. I would like the Minister to explain why we would attach $75,000 to this position just to hire another bureaucrat and get them to go out and hire somebody else to do the real work. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.