Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member tabled this letter and I trust he read it, I don't know. But if he didn't, I'll take whatever time is necessary to explain it to him. This is one piece of a big project. He asked the question, where are the benefits for the northerners. Well, Mr. Speaker, I'll tell you, there are a lot of benefits for northerners. There are jobs and business opportunities as a result of all this development. Mr. Speaker, there are taxes to be generated from this development. Mr. Speaker, there is a $500 million socio-economic impact fund. Mr. Speaker, there are the potential legacy projects we're negotiating on, on convertible housing, and on hydro. Mr. Speaker, there are lots of benefits to northerners.
Mr. Speaker, the whole purpose of negotiations is to arrive at a compromise. If everybody took what Mr. Hawkins is suggesting and said, no, we're not going to compromise anything, we would not have socio-economic benefits; we could not have the $500 million; we could not have access and benefit agreements; we would not have employment and business opportunities. We would all win, in somebody's eyes, and Mr. Hawkins' eyes, maybe, I don't know. But that is not the way to do business. This is one piece out of the whole project. Mr. Speaker, there are tremendous benefits to be had by northerners. We all have to compromise. The federal government had to compromise. Imperial has to compromise. Aboriginal leaders have to compromise as they negotiate, and so do we, Mr. Speaker. We all work together on this. We've got a huge, tremendous project that is worth billions and billions of dollars for our people here. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.