Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know, we started talking, as a government, starting talking about devolution probably in the late 1980s at the time when our government created the Department of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and hired a deputy minister for this new department because we were all excited that we were going to get devolution at that time. Things didn't quite unfold the way they should be. We worked on it, but it wasn't as critical to us because the revenue was small and so on. But now it's critical for us. It is really critical for us. Mr. Speaker, we have to get beyond words. I know political leader in Ottawa after political leader has talked about treating all Canadians equally throughout the country, that we should get the primary share and so on, but we have to get beyond that. So, Mr. Speaker, it's my intention that we turn up the heat a bit and start asking for some specific time frames on things. What are you going to do? We don't need to just hear the nice messages. But we need to know that a time frame to get an AIP in place isn't my timetable. We've got to put timetables on things. We've got to talk specifics of what we're doing. To answer the question that the Member asked, yes, I will raise that with all the political leaders. We have to do something here. We can't just keep saying nice things. Thank you.
Joe Handley on Question 459-15(5): Resource Revenue Sharing Negotiations
In the Legislative Assembly on March 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.
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