Mr. Chairman, let me say that the process being followed here is very similar to what we did when we negotiated as a government and as aboriginal organizations with diamond mines. Except in that case, each of the impacted communities or regions negotiated socio-economic impact mitigation funding within their access and benefit agreement. So if you go to the Tlicho, you would find something to deal with the socio-economic issues and the same with the Akaitcho and Lutselk'e and so on.

In this case, what has happened is the communities along the valley have negotiated what is basically a joint socio-economic mitigation agreement that is for everybody. Then they will include in their access and benefit agreements terms on employment, on contracting, on other issues. So it is very similar to what we did with the diamond mines. In the same way, the Gwich'in, for example, did not benefit from an access or benefits agreements on diamond mines. Those communities that are not on the pipeline don't get the direct benefit. So the Member asked a good question. How do we deal with the impacts for everybody else, whether it's in Yellowknife, or in Behchoko, or Fort Resolution, or anywhere? How do we deal with that? That is where we negotiate resource revenues. Typically, in any government, we would collect the resource revenues and we would use those for mitigating the negative impact of the development. We would use those for enhancing our infrastructure, for increasing our training facilities and so on.

In a short answer, Mr. Chairman, it is resource revenues that are used across the Territories on an equitable basis for everybody, no matter if you live on the pipeline or not. You get access to the benefit from resource revenues. That's the second piece. This first piece is just for along the valley.

Mr. Chairman, I am confident we are going to be successful in getting a fair resource revenue sharing arrangement. The Prime Minister said we should be the primary beneficiaries. That's the money we allocate all across the Territories to help people no matter which community they live in. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.