Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree with much of what the Member is saying. I think we've had public meetings with the joint committee, public meetings in Norman Wells, I've been to meet with the town council in Hay River and had a good dialogue about the challenges that they face and they're saying essentially the same sorts of things that the Member is articulating here today in the House. We know the MACA Minister heard this message loud and clear at the forum in Inuvik, the community leadership forum, and has since written to his federal counterparts to insist that more needs to be done to aid these communities in providing funding. We know that the social envelope Ministers will embark on a process to hear from the stakeholders about the social impacts of development. I expect that from that dialogue and discussion with key stakeholders, we'll hear again the same sort of message and that will allow us to go to the federal government and advocate for additional funding so that people can, in fact, have the capacity to put their voices to the process and have their issues dealt with and addressed.
So we're focussing on communities. We are working closely with community leadership. Community leadership needs help and we're trying to get them the additional help. Many of the stakeholders, including NGO's and other organizations in the Northwest Territories, will need additional help as well, and we intend to take that message as we have been, but intend to continue to take that message to the federal government because, quite simply, we don't have the additional adequate resources to bring to bear to fund individuals so they can participate more fully in this process. As I mentioned, we've chosen to focus our limited resources on working with groups like the Aboriginal Pipeline Group, but also with communities through programs like the RPDP and will continue that approach.
I think this is exactly the kind of input and dialogue we need and will, I think, strengthen our argument and our case with the federal government. I thank the Member for the comments.