My question today is for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. It gets back again to my statement from earlier today, where I talked again about the migrant worker issue here in the Northwest Territories, with the 3,300 migrant workers and the $350 million every year that leaves the Territory.

In my statement I talked about De Beers Canada. I don’t by any means intend to single out De Beers, but it’s a real-life example. They currently have Edmonton as a point of pickup for employees working at their Snap Lake and Gahcho Kué

operations. They not only fly them in from Edmonton, but as of January 1, 2008, they’re supplying workers travelling a greater distance than 500 kilometres away from Edmonton $600 a month to get to Edmonton.

This just doesn’t seem right to me, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to ask the Minister if this is in keeping with the spirit and intent of the socio-economic agreement which they signed?