I heard that and that's a call of alarm in my opinion. That is telling us that the NWT government does not have veto power, no aboriginal government has veto power, and if we are thinking leaders and responsible leaders and we don't want to fail the people, we have to take that as a challenge from the federal government, that we know what we want, we want a pipeline, we think the North has a useful role to play in terms of meeting the energy needs of the world, and of any kind of resource requirements because we have a ton of them, and we will do as little as what we need to do to get it. That's the answer I get. It's up to us, as the leaders of the Territories, to step up to the plate and say you know what, your minimum is not good enough for us. I don't hear that and instead I hear our leader for the last three years saying every time he comes back from Ottawa, everything is great in Ottawa. Everybody's saying the right things, I think they like us, they understand us, they understand our file, they want to work out a deal. The same thing with aboriginal leaders. I'm working with aboriginal leaders, everything is happening and yet on the sidelines, I have heard more than once aboriginal leaders saying that we don't have the same understanding. I am just saying somebody has to take the leadership of this role, we know who's supposed to do it, somebody has to step up to the plate because I'm telling you we would have a lot of humble pie to eat, or a lot more actually serious than that, because I don't want to be the one 20, 30 years down the road when I want to pull a blanket over my head and say my goodness, if I could have just done something, what is that. I tell you, I urge really the only way we could get the maximum, the only way we could get more than the minimum that the federal government is willing to offer, the only way we could get a deal that is not crippled because of someone not having veto power is for us to be united. We need to support every table and all the regional governments. That's the only way we're going to be as strong and actually stronger than the combined players.
I have to tell you there are those, probably in Yellowknife, too, and some conservative elements in society who believe that nobody should have veto power, and I can understand that side. But, Mr. Speaker, I'm telling you we need to look at this in a completely different way, and the resource revenue sharing deal cannot come without answering to the grievances politically and socially, and we need a vision for the North about how we're going to achieve this. There's no more. We are failing our people if we say I'm doing my part, there's somebody in one corner of the NWT trying to get a better deal with the NWT, the GNWT is doing their thing, somebody in the South, somebody in the North, everybody's going off doing their thing and we're going to fail our people. I really think we could be an enormously successful party, a strong party, strong party at the table if we could get all the leaders together and say this and really unite and come up with a position. I understand how difficult this may be, but that is the task at hand. Any leader in this territory who likes to think himself as a leader or herself as a leader or anybody out there, that's the challenge. I have to believe in the politics of possibilities. I am not being na‹ve. I think it takes give and take, and I know that with the resource development issue here of the diamond mines, the biggest beneficiary, outside of Yellowknife, is the North Slave region. I think there's an example there where when the aboriginal people and aboriginal governments benefit it helps all the rest of us. That's the principle also that this government should advocate more on. But I tell you, Mr. Speaker, so far I hear everybody spinning, everybody saying we're doing everything we can, everybody is happy, things are happening, just wait, we're close to a deal, you know hanging onto every little spin that every Prime Minister gives, and I'm not just talking about the Conservative government.
So, Mr. Speaker, the most important paragraph in this motion is, of course, the last paragraph and we're giving a deadline. We're saying to all of us -- and that's all of us here -- but anybody who considers themselves a leader and has any say in the political and social and economic development of the Northwest Territories, we all have to step back and look within ourselves and say is this the best we can do for our people that we represent, and isn't it time that we set our differences aside and unite so that we make sure that we're not sidelined with the minimum deal that the federal government is willing to give us so that it will play on the most vulnerable and weakest link of our territory and in the end failing all our people.
So, Mr. Speaker, in the next two months I'll be looking for real strong leadership and no more excuses and no more proclamation of progress where there's no evidence...