Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, I'll tell you, there are 224 million reasons why we have to continue to do this. We have to do it. We may not have a legal right. We may have to shame them. We are Canadians. We should have the equal rights to Canadians anywhere. We are a resource rich area. All those good arguments that we've been making. Mr. Speaker, we're in negotiations right now, and we are negotiating. The federal government has agreed; they've appointed a negotiator. He is negotiating hard to protect federal interests, which is the 224 million reasons. Mr. Speaker, negotiations are going on and between that negotiating table and our continual lobbying other leaders to support us and trying to shame the federal government, Mr. Speaker, I'm afraid those are the main avenues we have right now and hopefully our negotiations are going to be successful and we can look forward to an agreement-in-principle soon. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Joe Handley on Question 448-15(5): Resource Revenue Sharing Negotiations
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.
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March 6th, 2007
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