Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on this issue again of resource revenue sharing and devolution, it is difficult to know how to approach it. I really hope our constituents out there understand what drives this discussion and why it is so important. The Premier talked about royalties of $10 million 20 years ago coming out of the North. They didn't want to talk to us about resource revenue sharing then. Now that it's up to $224 million, what would make us think they'd want to talk about it more? In some ways, Mr. Speaker, it's like the ultimate abusive relationship. You know? We try to be nice. We go down to Ottawa. They say they really like us.

We come back to the House. We're afraid to say anything against them. We are working very hard, as the other Members pointed out, to do things to accommodate industry and invite companies into the North to exploit our resources so that the money can continue to flow to Ottawa in the form of royalties, and they just keep saying we'll talk to you about this later. It's premature. We don't want to talk to you about it now. So we don't know whether to take a hard line or a soft line or any line, or if we should just bury our heads in the sand and watch the development come through here. But we are sending a lot of money to accommodate development. We're spending a lot of money that could be spent on other things to accommodate development.

So I guess it's a frustrating thing and we talked about it yesterday and what can we do to get their attention on this. As there is a federal election campaign coming up, this should be an issue that is at the top of somebody's agenda. This should be at the top of a national party's agenda. I'd like to ask the Premier if he would commit to making sure that every leader of every political party in this country is keenly aware of what we're facing here. Thank you.