Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So the regional representation is great. Putting together all these legal entities, NGOs on an interim basis, I guess they would be, just for distribution and allocation of these dollars, just get down to the dollars that were allocated for the socio-economic fund and how they were split up into the three regions of the Deh Cho, the Sahtu and the Gwich'in/Inuvialuit. I am just wondering, since it's not finalized with the federal government, what about the other regions in the NWT like the Akaitcho, the Tlicho and the Thebacha regions, and even the reserve? These are regions who are going to be significantly impacted, too, socially, probably in a larger degree than a lot of the communities in the valley that are really tiny. Sure, they will grow by about 100 percent, I am sure, in a lot of instances. There will be a lot of pipeline people, a lot of socio-economic impacts happening even here in Yellowknife, probably in Res and Smith. People will be moving there and moving to Hay River and living all over the NWT. I just don't think that the impact that is going to be realized across the NWT...The impact may be in Smith or the Akaitcho region is going to be taking a backseat on the immediate impacts that is going to be happening up and down the valley. To me, it just doesn't seem fair that we are excluding pretty much half of the NWT in saying that you guys aren't entitled to any of this impact benefit dollars or funding because you are not in the immediate impact zone.

As far as I am concerned, the whole NWT is the impact zone for any major project of that magnitude that happens here in the NWT. We are all impacted just as much as anywhere else from north to south and east to west.

So with this new government coming into power, I am wondering if there are going to be any amendments to include the NWT, or is there any other impact agreements that might be coming down the line that might assist the Akaitcho Territory and the Tlicho Territory to mitigate some of those impacts and to deal with them at the same pace as Fort Good Hope and Fort Simpson and those other places? Is there going to be money available for that? I know there was about $15,000 last year that was given to measure socio-economic impacts in the regions. I thought $15,000; what is that? For the Thebacha or Akaitcho regions, that was just really nothing. What kind of an expert can you get to do any kind of work for $15,000 for maybe a couple of weeks' work? A couple of days with prices these days.

I am just wondering if the Minister could tell us if there are any other avenues that the government is going to be seeking on behalf of these other regions to help them mitigate the big impacts that they are going to be feeling, too. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.