Three-quarters of a million dollars a day is what's going out of here in taxes and royalties from the diamonds and the oil and gas that we need a share of. We're not getting it. Ottawa takes it away arbitrarily in programs that really make a difference to people in our communities and on our front line without talking to us, Mr. Speaker, and that's the part that really, really goes against the grain here, especially in this consensus system. We're ready to take some bad news and take our share of working for a better Canada, but this is not the way to go about it.
Mr. Speaker, there is a number of cuts that we're going to take here. Members have spoken about it today; I've spoken about it in some previous ones. A particularly difficult one that we are going to see considerable ripple from is the loss of the tourism, the GST advantage the tourism packages have now. We will be increasing the non-competitiveness of Canada's tourism product by 6 percent as of April 1st if this one goes through. Mr. Speaker, Ottawa recorded a $6.7 billion surplus so far this year, and yet they're taking away $1 billion worth of very valuable front-line programming, $1 million of it here in the Northwest Territories. I will not stand for a download, Mr. Speaker.