Thank you, Madam Chair. As I stated in the past, the work that was done was either project specific, for example, the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, the impacts that that would have across the territory, as well as another piece of it looking at our fiscal relationship and how that needs to be fixed with Ottawa. The work, as I stated, was a piece at a time, an activity or event that we would hear about coming up and doing some of that work. If we are going to be, as a government, ready for the development that seems will be ongoing, not just one event at a time and the growth that's happened in the economy that's happened since 1999 only lends to the fact that we need to put some adequate resources toward this to do a proper job of it. That's why we are coming forward asking for this position.
I know Mr. Ramsay has stated time and time again about the growth and the government bureaucracy and how this needs to be in other departments, but when you look across jurisdictions in Canada, it is within the Department of Finance and helps around our fiscal policy arrangements in those areas. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Thank you, Madam Chair.