Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, too, am concerned about the recent announcement of the $16.2 billion that they said it was going to cost to build the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. I represent the riding in an
area that has a lot to gain from the construction of a pipeline and we have a lot to lose. It is starting to bother me, Mr. Speaker, as to money that these people are hoping Ottawa gives them. We ask for a little bit of money for some royalties and they are asking in the billions of dollars. Chances are that they are going to get it. They hold something like the pipeline to their advantage to try and get that money out of Ottawa. They stand to profit billions and billions of dollars, and yet they go and ask the government for some money like they really need it. We are the people that need the money, Mr. Speaker. We really do.