Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are negotiating with the federal government and with Imperial. No doubt, Imperial, or Exxon who owns most of them, make profits. That's what those businesses do. But, Mr. Speaker, we are insisting with the federal government that they work with us to conclude an agreement-in-principle on devolution and resource revenue sharing within a matter of months. Mr. Speaker, we need their commitment to do that, otherwise, as I said, our support for these kind of big projects is questionable why we're doing it. Mr. Speaker, on resource revenues we're saying agree to an agreement-in-principle, then start working on a final agreement. The Prime Minister has said that the northerners should be the primary beneficiaries of resource revenues. That to me sounds like 50 percent plus, and that is where we are negotiating with the federal government on resource revenues. Of course, there's other areas in terms of socioeconomic impact and so on that we're negotiating as well. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Joe Handley on Question 156-15(5): Mackenzie Valley Gas Project Profits
In the Legislative Assembly on October 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Question 156-15(5): Mackenzie Valley Gas Project Profits
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 19th, 2006
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