Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Certainly, we are the public government in the Northwest Territories. We have a responsibility to all citizens in this territory. Mr. Speaker, we have worked with the Mackenzie Valley claimant organizations and communities along the valley to ensure that there was a process in place to make sure their socio-economic impact was dealt with. We also worked with the regions and the communities that were impacted by the mines and supported them in their right to have a benefit agreement. We were not party to those agreements, but we did make sure we did have that.
Mr. Speaker, the main way that we are going to be able to deal with the impact of development in the Northwest Territories for all people regardless of which community they live in is going to be through resource revenue sharing. We have to have the federal government agree with us that a fair share of those resources come here, and our position is that we have to be the primary beneficiaries. That's the money we are going to use to deal with socio-economic impacts and to deal with future economic opportunities and so on. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.