Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are all frustrated with the amount of time it's taken to achieve an agreement on devolution and on resource revenue sharing. It becomes more critical as we have more resource development.

Mr. Speaker, our government has had to work through two federal elections over the past three years. That has certainly made it difficult for us to show substantial progress. Mr. Speaker, I have made it very clear with the Prime Minister that we want a deal on resource revenue sharing before the pipeline goes ahead. The Prime Minister has heard that, Mr. Speaker. If one were to check his speech that he made in this building, the Great Hall, then he also links those two together. He did it the opposite way. He said we won't get resource revenue sharing without the pipeline, but I think the converse is true and it's been our point as well. So now it's how do we move ahead.

Mr. Speaker, we got the message to him. We have to figure out how we make progress on this. I think with the appointment of a negotiator that is a big piece. Hopefully we can move ahead. Thank you.