Thank you, Mr. Chair. It was interesting listening to all of the discussion going around the room here. Had I known that the deletion of these two positions was going to bring the pipeline to a halt, the government to a standstill, then I wouldn't have moved it. What I have been hearing is things won't happen unless we get these two positions. I don't agree with that. Two hundred ninety-one thousand dollars can go towards a couple of nurses in the communities. Two hundred ninety-one

thousand dollars could go to a dialysis machine in the Beaufort-Delta which is going to need one soon. We have people in our communities. We have community members, community leaders that will protect their people. They don't need these advisors to do that.

The Minister stated that one of these positions is going to go in Inuvik. I am a Member from Inuvik and I am thinking, well, he is taking a job away from Inuvik. No, I am not taking the job away from Inuvik because there wasn't a job there to begin with. What I am doing is I am trying to hold this government accountable. I want to hold them accountable for every nickel they spend. Otherwise, I might as well just get a bobblehead doll and sit here and flick his head like that and he could just sit there like that.

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I appreciate the comments that went around the table. I know there is a lot of work that needs to be done as far as studying the resource development impact. We have enough advisors out there. We have our own people that are advisors. We have the Inuvialuit, the Gwich'in, the Sahtu, all the way down. They have their own people as advisors. To say that the Inuvialuit, the Gwich'in and that have asked for this money and have asked for these kinds of positions, well, they have also asked for treatment centres. They have also asked for some other legitimate concerns and they don't get a cheque for $291,000 just like that.

So, Mr. Chair, I appreciate all the comments that went around the table, but the Northwest Territories is not going to come to a standstill because we don't have these two impact advisor positions. Thank you.